The Fondant Fairy Visits!!

After the last bee-keeper's meeting, we began to feel we should look at giving the bees a bit of a New Year treat. Many people had expressed their concern about the activity of the bees recently and that the stores would be being used up more quickly than if the weather had stayed as cold as last year. The general consensus is that if the bees do not need the extra food they will not take it. So, as we had plenty of fondant ready we decided the time was about right to put on the fondant if we were going to.
We prepared trays with about a kilo of fondant in them, removed the roof and placed the fondant over the hole in the crown board. All in all it took a few seconds- enough time to have a quick peak but hopefully not to disturb the bees too much.

In the garden hive we could see quite a few bees between the frames- these bees have been quite active on good days. At Cordwood there were not many bees to be seen but I could see capped stores at the top of the frames showing through the crown board hole.