🐝💗Our Backyard Beekeeping Journey!💗🐝

[5Australorpasaures]

We need to pick up some foam board too. Are you painting it to protect it?

I love how you're helping them.

Protection and the black paint or any dark color will increase warmth on the exterior, it also acts as a wind break on the bare hive body. Light colors reflect, dark colors absorb. If you look at available hive wraps they are black.

 

[drstratton]

Protection and the black paint or any dark color will increase warmth on the exterior. Light colors reflect, dark colors absorb.

Gotcha, that makes sense!

 

[Apis mellifera]

First flurries today and I have a couple more supers to pull.

 

[drstratton]

First flurries today and I have a couple more supers to pull.

I hope you get them off before the snow really flies.

 

[R2elk]

The weeds (Malva zebrina) are still going strong. There are bees on them this morning

 

[R2elk]

I need to look into using thymol blocks.

If you don't want to make your own Thymol blocks, Apiguard does sell a Thymol gel treatment.

Vita Bee Health Apiguard - 50g Thymol Gel Trays