READY FOR WINTER???

[TwT]

Is everyone ready for winter? have you checked your hives to mack sure they have enough food for the winter? hows the  fall inspections go when you checked? just curious.....

[pdmattox]

Every thing looks good here in north florida.   Found a few drones still left in one of the hives i was splitting. 
I am ready for winter.............

[buzzbee]

Hi twt,
They've all been fed and seem in good shape. Cross my fingers and wait for spring! :lol:

[BeeHopper]

Me, No, but the girls are.  :-D

[thegolfpsycho]

I hope so ted, cause it's snowing again!!  bwahahaha

[tillie]

Well, I'm ready for winter but it's going to be 79 degrees in Atlanta tomorrow - hard to even think winter.  The girls seem to have enough food and on these warm days are out flying around.  Tonight I had a bee in the house - wandering around outside at night and hitched a ride into the house on a dog's back. :-\

[yoderski]

No, I am not ready for winter as I found out when I checked my hives yesterday.  I am new at this beek stuff so I harvested honey on Sept 1, thinking that they would have time to build up before the winter. And in fact, several weeks ago it looked like they were building up there stores okay, and I thought everything was okay, each had a medium super half full, which is about half of what you need to overwinter here.  Yesterday I checked again, and they have emptied those supers--we had two weeks of cold weather, and there doesn't seem to be much in the way of acceptable flowers for them to make honey with.  I started feeding yesterday, and with the weather supposed to be warm for a day or so, maybe I can build them up in time.  In talking to the beekeepers around here, because of the drought, it has been a very poor fall.  We had a good crop of goldenrod, but the bees did not use it all.....so you live and learn.  I did have plenty of bees, though, a deep and each super pretty full.....in two different hives...