"Thank you to everyone who enjoyed the honey bees this summer at the Oil City & Franklin libraries. I hope they were able to entertain and educate you -- they stayed quite busy foraging, making honey and baby bees.... and making a mess of the glass panels!They were taken to the home apiary in late September so they would get a chance to acclimate to their new surroundings before the cold weather set in (sort of like what the migratory pollination beekeepers do with their bees).Next year, in late Spring, I will start over with a new batch of bees and a clean observation hive. In the meantime, the current bees will make friends in their new home and hunker down in a cluster to ride out the cold weather with occasional cleansing flights on the warmer days. I will wrap their hive with insulation and make sure they have enough to eat and drink, plus an unobstructed entrance for those cleansing flights.See you next spring!"-- The Beekeeper š ... See MoreSee Less