We are getting a warm spell!

Get out and clean out the entrances to your hives! I checked mine on Wednesday and 9 of 12 were blocked with dead bees!!

Also lift the lid of your hives. If you can see the top of the cluster, feed your bees. In 10 of my 12 hives, the cluster was visible on the top of the second brood box. Those 10 now have hard candy on top of the brood box frames.

The good news is that all 12 of my hives were alive yet as well as one nuc with the VSH queen in it!

If you have a hive that died, make sure to clean out the dead bees as soon as possible to prevent molding in the hive.

Good luck!