At this time of year it is reassuring to see the bees out and about. With temperatures reaching an unseasonal 12 degrees the bees were fairly busy. Workers, females, were clearing out dead bees and kicking out the lazy food consuming drones, males. This seems rather morbid, but the food gathered during Spring and summer, honey reserves, are now feeding the hive, and the drones one purpose is to mate with a Queen, and not this hives Queen.
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