It was a bit warmer at the end of last week and the bees were busy, so thought I would tempt them with some more sugar solution, I fed them 2 pints on Wednesday and by Friday morning they had polished it off, as I planned to be away over the weekend I thought I should continue feeding so gave then 4 pints, as yet it's too dark and wet to check, but hopefully I will be able to quickly look in the hive under floodlight before end of week to see if they are still feeding.
That will make 25kgs of sugar they have consumed since I started the winter feed!
Ok and this time I stuck the cover strip down in the feeder with some Duct Tape so that I didn't drown awhole lot more of my bees!
In about a month it with be time to think about treating with oxalic acid for varroa and also how on earth I am going to tidy up the mess in the brood box that I have allowed to happen by using different size frames! Well they do say you learn more by your mistakes, hopefully no harm will have been done:-)
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