I was going to make a joke about being like Crimea since the russians arrived, but couldn't make the joke come out right. In any case, my packages came in on Saturday. It was a wonderful day around 70F. The bees went in rather uneventfully and I got the hives put back together.
Things changed a little later when my brother and I went to his house to install his packages. (He has two Warre hives.) The wind picked up to about 20 mph. I stood next to the hives as he dumped them in to try to block the wind. Of course the wind was from a cold front that was moving through.
Yesterday the temperature was in the forties and today it was in the thirties. Since I knew it was going to be cold, I put fondant in plastic bags and hung them between the bars of comb in the Kenyan top-bar hive next to the queen cage. It worked out well because when I went into the hives today to pull the cork from the queen cages the KTBH was really warm.
I'm a little concerned about the Warre hive because the comb that I had wired up fell along with the queen cage. I pulled the cork out and set the cage next to the cluster, so she may be okay.
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