January Bees

It's been really cold for the past few weeks so we haven't seen any bees lately. Last week, Karl tapped on the hive and got a lot of buzzing in response so we took that as a good sign. Then yesterday, the afternoon temperature got up to 53 degrees. When I went out at lunchtime, there were several bees flying around in front of the hive. While I stood watching them for a couple minutes, a few of them zoomed away, but mostly they stayed close to home. A few dead bees were pushed out and were on the ground in front of the hive opening, but not many. Hopefully these are all good signs that our hive is going to make it through the winter.