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We're getting close to this step.
I'm not close to wrapping, day temps in the mid to high 60s, night temps 40F to 45F. mid afternoon flying still heavy. Taking syrup but not as much. All 3 hives are heavy with stores. End of the month I'll make up the solid sugar blocks so they're ready for mid November or so. Do have reducers and mouse guards installed though.
 
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Like watching the cloud of bees on clean up. usually takes 'em 3 -4 days when I set all 6 mediums on the shooting bench.
I put my supers back on the hives for cleanup. Usually takes them one or two days for it.
 
I put my supers back on the hives for cleanup. Usually takes them one or two days for it.
My husband said he thought about doing that, but was feeling too lazy to do it that way...lol We're still playing catch up around here. Inside and out.
 
I'm not close to wrapping, day temps in the mid to high 60s, night temps 40F to 45F. mid afternoon flying still heavy. Taking syrup but not as much. All 3 hives are heavy with stores. End of the month I'll make up the solid sugar blocks so they're ready for mid November or so. Do have reducers and mouse guards installed though.
Our temps are still about the same as yours.
 
I'll do this if the flow is strong in the spring, fall clean up is out side, all the wax chips fall on the table, not on the bottom board for me to scrape out.
I never see the bottom board in healthy hives. The only time I see the bottom board is when I am cleaning out a hive after the loss of the bees or setting up a new hive.
 
I never see the bottom board in healthy hives. The only time I see the bottom board is when I am cleaning out a hive after the loss of the bees or setting up a new hive.
By early spring, late Feb early Mar, all the bees are in the top box exhausting stores. Time for me to flip and get the excluder on, Maple pollen and others are starting, plus time for the pollen patties and 1:1. By this time the queen is starting up here. Also put the Apivar strips in so they're out by the Blueberry flow.
 
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