Just doing a quick update. The porch hive continues to grow. They are really good at producing more bees. The 3 new bars are getting close to full. Bees are clustering in the feeding and starting to move into the open space at back again. I may have to give them more bars to avoid swarming. Meanwhile, bees are oozing out through the bottom screen. Either they are expanding existing small holes or just pushing through. In any case, the number on the porch was increasing when J came home yesterday, so she took the screen out, put the cat in and shut the back door. Bees were on the bottom screen so I suited up, swept them off and closed the bottom cover temporarily. Since there isn't time to add another piece of screen, I used masking tape to cover the hole(s). The temperature is going close to 100 today and tomorrow, so I wanted the screen open. The tape is working for now.
Meanwhile, the back hive is smaller and fairly peaceful. I felt sorry for them so I fed them several days in a row. They finished a feeder every day. It is damper and shadier down there, so they are not as active. You can see the difference between the two hives.
Stay cool out there. For those of you in California, that's no problem. For us, it sucks. We had Cal. weather for a long while, but now the temp is going through the roof. Is this how it is in Denver?
We do roast in parts of California! 102 yesterday in Fresno, driving home from the Pacific, where it barely hit 70. Our house was 89 (A/C was off for several days), so we just jumped in the pool.
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