Month: December 2019

Are your stockings hung? Are you ready for Santa?

I am not sure where I got this photo, but I had to share. Our bees don’t care about night-time visitors like Saint Nicholas, but they sure like this warm weather. The bees have been flying almost every day this week of Christmas – unbelievable!

if I could, I would give them a warm spell about every three weeks. Or maybe fill their little stockings with honey.

Whatever the weather brings you and your hives this year, here’s wishing you a joyous holiday season. And come March, I hope your bees are raring to get busy!

Who would have thought the bees would be flying in 50+ degree weather in December? But the bees are loving it!

Here is a video showing their flight to and from the hive in slow motion.

Watch my slow-motion video here

So why do bees fly this time of year? Obviously no plants are producing nectar or pollen, I doubt that trees have much resin/propolis available (used by bees as glue to seal cracks in the hive).

The only other choices would be to collect water or to relieve themselves. As I have reported earlier, honey bees are very clean and will not poop inside the hive, so I am thankful they were able to get out and take care of business.

Who knows? Maybe they’ll find a forgotten hummingbird feeder with a little sugar water in it. Or, as the case may be, they were just getting out to stretch their wings.

We humans know about cabin fever – we’ll take an unseasonably warm December day any time!