10/30/2026
🐝 **NEW VIDEO IS LIVE! WINTER HIVE PREP — AND THE BEES HAVE OTHER PLANS!**
Winter is coming to Southeast Texas, and it's time to get the girls ready!
I headed out to the apiary with a pretty simple plan: inspect both hives, check their food stores, and hopefully reduce them from three deep boxes down to one.
**Apparently, nobody bothered to tell the bees about my plan.**
The Pink Hive woke up and chose violence. The Green Hive was surprisingly cooperative, although apparently the bees had been paying rent on three stories of real estate they weren't even using.
We found brood, honey, pollen, some unexpected drones, and plenty of empty frames.
Oh, and somewhere along the way, I put a queen in protective custody. No charges filed. 👑
By the end of the day, we managed to get the Green Hive down to two deeps. The Pink Hive? Well, we'll have that conversation another day.
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**Fellow beekeepers, I've got a question:** Would you push to get these colonies down to a single deep before winter, or leave them a little extra room?
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