Loading ...The weather has been so beautiful that you can’t help but want to be outside. On the weekend we took a look around the farm, enjoying the warm sunshine, and the greenery starting to show through.
Of the two bee hives one is still doing well, there have even been a few bees out and about.
You might just be able to make out that at the bottom of the closer of the hives there are bodies strewn about, this is actually a good sign, as I understand it. The bodies out front mean that the hive is functioning as the drones are cleaning house of any that didn’t make it through the winter.
Whereas the furthest hive where there are no bodies out the front is the one Steve reported as not surviving the winter.
It is a relief to know that one hive is still going, although I don’t want to speak too soon.
Just this week I discovered the Great Sunflower Project, which is a ‘citizen scientist’ project gathering information about urban, suburban and rural bee populations. I have signed us up and am looking forward to a good excuse to sit around gazing at beautiful sunflowers!
I’m all signed up. We can sit and stare at sunflowers together! I know I have bees in my garden, they love a plant I that was here when we moved in. I think it is a type of thistle, it’s huge and beautiful with periwinkle blue spherical flower clusters.
Comment by elizabeth — March 12, 2010 @ 8:29 am