No pictures today, but I went to my other bee yard to do some quick inspections. All my colonies are dead. All.
I haven't done a post mortem yet. But, I have to say that I suspect that it may be due to my own mismanagement and that's the only thing I can actually control. So I have to do better. The varroa mite may be a cause, likely it is. Or I may have had some mice get inside hive (again that's mismanagement on my part).
Regardless, as euphoric as yesterday was at bee yard number one, today was quite disappointing.
I went into the winter with 22 colonies and now I'm down to seven. Not my worst year ever, but it was a lot worse than I expected.
