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Offline rober

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last hurrah before winter?
« on: October 17, 2016, 05:09:58 pm »
 the girls are in a frenzy to lay up whatever is available right now. I had 2 boxes of frames that i'd frozen & sprayed with BT & had a fan on them to dry. I forgot & left the garage door open & 45 minutes later you could not even see the boxes for bees. I ran them out with a leaf blower & closed the door. while making syrup I can barely get it poured into my storage buckets for getting mobbed by bees. I had a frame full of honey that had fallen apart & when I sat it out to let them rob it the bees were 4" thick on it. anything that's blooming is covered with bees. dos' girls is busy busy busy.

as a side note I have a 15' x 20' patch of the common orange cosmos flowers. I must be on a migratory path cuz' last Thursday I caught some movement & when I took a closer look there were at least 200 monarch butterflies on the patch. that as pretty cool!! all my hummingbirds have already flown south.

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Re: last hurrah before winter?
« Reply #1 on: October 17, 2016, 05:46:51 pm »
Yup, things are getting testy here too. Cool about the Monarchs. :)
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