My mentor decided it was time to harvest the honey I was not wanting to do it because to start with I got the bees late in the season so I was thinking that it was their food for the winter. It got too cold and I forgot to make nectar for them I did not find any dead bodies so they probably left.
They eggs are from my BCM when they started laying this spring. At the moment they are not as dark but still a beautiful colour. I checked with one of my friends that has bees too and he thinks they left because not enough food. We will se what happens this year.
Glad to see there is a bee thread. I started with one hive of Italians last year but by winter they where gone. This year I got two hives I bought from a seller in Los Banos, CA I live in CA Central Coast and had to go that far buying them as any local beekeeper was three times more expensive. I...