From: Max Frohman
Date: October 18, 2022
Subject: Beemail! Beekeeping Club Newsletter 10/18


Hello Tigers!

This past weekend, parents and club members alike came down to the Colby kitchen to make lip balm and decorate cookies! It was very fun and we loved meeting your families!

As temperatures drop, we've started to prepare our bees for the winter. This means the hives have been treated twice for mites, strapped down, and given sugar water for a some extra food. 

Hive inspections will start again in the spring once it warms up again! In the meantime, come to our biweekly Saturday meetings for crafts and guest speakers. :)

This Week's Hive Updates

Hive D:
- top box has some nectar stores and some capped honey
- 1-2 frames in top box empty or almost empty
- Middle box has significant pollen stores and good amounts of nectar/capped honey
- Middle box has sparse and irregular brood caps
- no eggs or queen spotted
- saw quite a few hive beetles and wasps
- bees were pretty calm

All Hives:
- treated all 3 hives with oxalic acid and cleaned off the bottom slides
- set up ratchet straps to hold down the hives (there were a lot of wasps in the top sugar water feeders)
- sugar water is about 1/2 full from the top lip of the feeder on hives C and D

Get Connected!

We have a Discord where we frequently send out reminders about meetings, hive inspections, and honey extractions. Make sure to join here to have access to this information!

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