[ken rice]

Will my may 6th new hives be ok tonight at 39 degrees. Thank you in advance

 

[jmgi]

Ken,

Your hives should be fine as long as they have food available near the cluster, don't know if you installed the bees on foundation, foundationless, or drawn comb. I just installed 10 packages of bees this week also, put them into a medium depth box with foundationless frames, except for one drawn comb of honey or syrup in each hive. I put an inverted feeder jar of syrup over the inner cover hole today and reduced the hive entrance down to 1 inch wide. We are expecting lows in the mid-30's tonight and tommorow night. They should be snug as a bug in a rug.

 

[ken rice]

Mine are also in mediums on foundation and top feeding through inner cover from ball jar 1to1 sugar syrup.

 

[MikeJ]

Bees seem to take cold weather ok. Besides it is only over night.
Up here tonight will be about 34. We installed packages last year in weather like this - and the year really never warmed up.

 

[ken rice]

Thanks guys, I am truly blessed to have this website

 

[jmgi]

You are right Ken, this is an excellent site for getting answers or opinions on beekeeping topics.