I got home and wanted to see how my bees were doing. It was dark, so I turned on my phone light that has a red light option. This doesn't disturb the bees I believe.
This is what I saw.
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| Owl House Bunch |
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| Bee Hive #2 |
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| BEE HIVE #1 with entrance recuder |
The owl house you can tell that they're massed in the front blocking off the cooler night time air regulating the inside so that they maintain temperature 92 to 94 for the brood to develop. Bee hive #2 is clustered on the far left side, so you could pretty much tell the brood is on the left side of the bee hive. The last photo is the bees are clustered on the entrance with a reducer. I put the reducer on even though it's 95 to 100 degrees. I do this because I have a bottom screened bottom board. I do have a piece of plastic on the underside of the screen blocking the wind some what. It's interesting to see the dynamics of the bees and knowing exactly what it is they're doing. Because you can clearly see I have the reducer on a bottom board is not a good choice to have. Too much of a draft for the bees to regulate the temperature inside the bee hive. I will remove it this fall and replace it with a solid bottom board.
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