The winter bees are beginning to get weary. In most colonies there's brood to feed, so, just when you're ready to retire after an exhausting time in/out/in/out of cluster, you're expected to go off foraging for pollen to feed the next generation.
As snow was expected today, yesterday QB found a sunny hour to give each colony - "Stone", "Silver", "Blue", "Red" and "Yellow H" a 500g pollen-nectar pattie. This should help them until the Salix catkins come into flower.
There isn't much else around - miniature daffodils are under snow again.
Good thing - there isn't any sign of dysentery - those nasty brown splashes
on the outside lifts.
QB is a "Honey jar" (glass) half full person.
As a friend wrote in a recent birthday card "Glass half full or glass half empty, it still needs topping up!".
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