Peace and tranquility on a summer day in the apiary – nice place for one to take a break

Bees are flying, lots of typical spring and summer activity – the bees are very active, working hard

White hives tend to look nice and yet don’t look as natural – the bees don’t care, they just do their work

Infrared (IR) image of two of our hives earlier this year – light spots are hot spots…dark are cool spots

Even better IR image of two hives in Rock Meadow last fall…those hives are very healthy, see all the heat?

In the fall, we group the hives together to help them keep warm, then add some insulation…doing well this winter

A look at the Rock Meadow hives…lots of heat signatures suggesting healthy hives – Spring is coming!

Another shot of the Rock Meadow hives – the one on the left is generating lots of heat! Strong colony

Older version of the Rock Meadow hives in a different IR mode – the left hive shows up hottest again

One last IR mode – the red being another way of displaying heat…all the hives are healthy here

Our spring swarm trap – caught a nice swarm last year and they ended up in the Rock Meadow apiary

Our swarm trap last spring – IR mode…you can see how hot the box was – healthy swarm and queen