Low was 29 high was 58 it was a sunny day. Water is still high in the lake and the pond at the farm is still full.
The Northwest hive was light. Not a lot of food stores that they are bringing in pollen and there's bee bread. I should add some pollen patties and they've taken down a quart jar of food in the past few days. The temperament was calm, and though I did not see any queen I did see a bunch of larvae and a medium to poor brood pattern. It has been very cold she may not be laying that well. There were no queen cells. There was a little tiny cup but I crushed.
I saw some developing drone brood, and even a few drones walking around very casually.
I have had more extensive notes on the other for hives but somehow they got deleted so I'll just say that the temperament and all five hives was calm. I did not see any hive beetles in any of the boxes. I saw increasingly better brood patterns as I went across the three hives on the North side and then the best on the hives that are on the south side. I was even certain that one of the hives was honey bound but in fact they do have some room for continued growth. I should probably add brood boxes to at least two maybe even three of the boxes.
I'm going to order 3 deep brood boxes and construct all the frames that I have so that we can begin expansion in February. Queens will be grafted or promoted in the middle of February and then splits will be made at the end of February.
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