Well, it has been several months since my last post. That has mainly to do with some personal issues with family, but rest assured that in the time that has past, I have been busy helping the bees prepare for winter. Late summer and early fall are the times when the bees get ready for the long state of relative inactivity. They have to store up a lot of food to get them through, and since the beekeeper was busy taking away those hard worked for stores from spring and summer, it is only fair that the beekeeper give something back. I fed my two colonies and the one nuc several portions of Apiinvert syrup. The syrup is a syrup mixture that also contains enzymes that help the bees to convert it to honey for storing for the winter. This syrup is also relatively odorless making it difficult for robbers (other honey bees and wasps) from detecting it. The bees can process the food rather quickly and the job of feeding them for winter is over rather quickly. For my artificial swar...