It has been very cold in the Upstate today (mid 40's) and I am a little concerned about the bees. I have visually checked on them twice today and everything seems OK but still concerned about a couple of things. I am going to name the hives so I can reference them. I am going to call the hive on the the left Maddy and the other one Sam. Maddy is not as active a Sam but they have taken the same amount of sugar water. I am using a ration of 5 lbs. of sugar/ 1 gal of water. There are a few dead bees laying on the ground and on the hives. I wish it was warmer so I could open the hive and make sure they are OK and also to retrieve the package container out of the hive and replace it with the 5 frames. But I think it is to cold to open the hives and may do more damage to them. Mike called me and stated that his bees were active today but there was about 200 dead bees at the entrance of his hives!! He said he couldn't wait any longer and opened his hives. He stated that they were all grouped on the center frames were we put the queen but they weren't moving. I told him it was probably to cold for them to be moving much and that they were probably trying to keep their hive warm. They need to keep it around 93 degrees. It is supposed to get into the 70's in a couple of days so I will probably check them out then and just pray until then.
One last observation was that Maddy had a couple of little ants hanging around the feeder. I am not concerned with them yet but will be keeping an eye out on them.
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