The arctic vortex killed the last 2 of our hives.  Eric had skirted the bottoms and put up extra wind and weather protection, but those ...

Bees will  do what bees will do.    They're 'supposed' to be building straight comb along the frame. Ha! These guys built...

It was great to have Lily there to do the camera thing so we could focus on the bees.    Thank you, Lily! I've divided the inspection...

Just to remind you, we took Lily with us this time to take the pics while we inspected the hives.    It was great to have Lily there to do ...

Blow these pics up for great details Confession:    I was really tempted just to give you a couple of nice pics, brag that we found both...

We were so excited to do our first real check of the hives.   This time we put on our veils because we weren't sure how docile the bee...