{"id":1399,"date":"2019-01-27T21:52:12","date_gmt":"2019-01-28T04:52:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mrames.com\/?p=1399"},"modified":"2019-01-27T21:54:05","modified_gmt":"2019-01-28T04:54:05","slug":"it-bee-winter-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.mrames.com\/?p=1399","title":{"rendered":"It Bee Winter Time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bees go to bed when temp is below 50F.\u00a0 There are different types of going to bed but when it gets cold like this pic the bees cluster tight.\u00a0 \u00a0 A cluster is like a large ball of bees.\u00a0 All clustering around the queen to keep her warm.\u00a0 \u00a0Remembering that there is only 1 queen per hive.\u00a0 This is their sole purpose in life.\u00a0 Bring in nectar, keep the queen happy and make more bees.\u00a0 As a beekeeper I try to get the hives through the winter.\u00a0 \u00a0Feeding in November with some raw sugar.\u00a0 \u00a010 lbs actually.\u00a0 And starting next month more sugar in the form of sugar cake.\u00a0 The black wrap helps to keep the cold wind out and on a sunny day provides some heat to the bees so that they might break cluster a bit and grab some honey and sugar for food.\u00a0 Anyway it will not be long and the flowers will be out and the bees will be busy.\u00a0 We need bees.<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mrames.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/WinterBees.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1398\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mrames.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/WinterBees.jpg\" alt=\"WinterBees\" width=\"480\" height=\"640\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.mrames.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/WinterBees.jpg 480w, http:\/\/www.mrames.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/WinterBees-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bees go to bed when temp is below 50F.\u00a0 There are different types of going to bed but when it gets cold like this pic the bees cluster tight.\u00a0 \u00a0 A cluster is like a large ball of bees.\u00a0 All clustering around the queen to keep her warm.\u00a0 \u00a0Remembering that there is only 1 queen [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mrames.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1399"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mrames.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mrames.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mrames.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mrames.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1399"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.mrames.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1399\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1401,"href":"http:\/\/www.mrames.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1399\/revisions\/1401"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mrames.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mrames.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mrames.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}