2015 Wrap Up

Just a few supers worth of honey this year. I guess the good news is that the bottling and clean up went fast!

Mite counts started to spike up after the supers came off so I bit the bullet and put Apivar strips in all three hives in September. They came out the week before Halloween.

It was a nice mild fall and we didn't get a hard freeze until November.

A freak windstorm hit Spokane in November and trashed our front yard and damaged the house. The hives were untouched, thank goodness!

Snow's been on the ground pretty much ever since.

The snow is pretty deep in the back yard so I've been clearing it off the front entrance. Heat from the hives is melting it off the top. All three hives were over 100lbs going into winter so I'm crossing my fingers. Nothing to do now but wait and worry til Spring.