We’ve been patiently awaiting this day! Overnight lows are above freezing and the clusters are broken.
Spring inspections! Made it through a few hives, but ran out of time. Most of them look great. Combined two weaker hives. Added frames of honey to a few. Pushed brood down. Drones are already present. Swarm season is around the corner!
Busy Busy! It’s amazing how they find pollen when we aren’t seeing it yet.
Queens were easy to find and look great!
Now for the more challenging, but not too difficult one… find the queen below!
She looks like this.
Working bees after 3pm always seems to result in stings. Back at it tomorrow! Can you spot the queen in most of the pictures?
EDIT: Beekeeper note. I only pushed brood down on strong hives. I took two weaker hives and reduced them down to 1 box. Pushing brood down early is a risky move as we could still get freezing temperatures. I took a gamble.