It has been an amazing year full of busy bee activity. We thought with the bad winter that we would loose a few colonies, but it turned out that it was only one colony, which although there was sufficient stores in the brood chamber, the bees just wasn't able to get to it. It is a weird thing, that bees do when coming out of hibernation, they want to do a cleans flight, they want to start bringing in pollen to feed the queen and the community of nursing bees, not to mention t