Check out the girls at night

We had a few really cold days here in San Jose eod of November. 28F is pretty cold for us here. And it is cold for the Bees too. So I took an Infrared camera to see how all the hives are doing.
I think the pictures came out really good.

Here you see the the left hive being much warmer than the other two. There seem to be many more bees in this hive and they seem to keep them selves nice and warm, all huddled together. They form a ball in the middle of the hive, so they can stay warm during these cold nights. The middle one has fewer bees and they therefore form a smaller ball. The hive on the right is the weakest one. I will have to figure out what is going on in there, once it gets a little warmer.

Here you see all our 5 hives in on picture. They seem lo light up like lanterns in the night. Here you can see the different locations of the bees within the hive, left a little lower, right a little higher.


I love to learn from bees.