Update to Emergency 1

Ok. Good news. So Matt talked to Jim from Beez Knees Apiary Supply where we took our bee classes. He said that he thinks the bees got caught outside and got disoriented when it was too cold. They can't fly when it is too cold. It looks like Jim was right.They looked dead the next morning when I left for work. When Matt went to check on them when he got home from work, They were moving. He scooped some of them up and put them near the entrance and they crawled in. The sun came out for a couple of minutes and when Matt went back out there a bit later, they were all gone! They huddled together to keep warm and survive. A rainy night and a day clinging to the rock and the wood chips, and then they went back into the hive when they warmed up! They huddled together to stay warm, and not die and it worked.

This may have been a classic case of "new motherhood." It is easy to worry about our new bees. We are so much as we go. They did look dead and dying though. Whew! The bees probably aren't dying of tracheal mites!