Every Seven Months, or so.

A few things of note have happened. I've lost a total of four hives. One top-bar hive swarmed, the other seems to have not made it through the winter. I mentioned the regular hive that seemed to have had some disease. There were a lot of drone cells so it was a matter of a missing queen. I went out and checked the remaining hives on a warm day in December and found that another had died. So this year I will buy some more colonies...at least two.