Friday I opened the top of Apha to see how much of the sugar syrup the bees had eaten. Most of the syrup was still in the feeder. I had about another gallon of syrup available, so I added that to the feeder. I noticed that there were several bees that had drowned in the syrup. When I build my next feeder, I will extend the wire cover further between the boards to give the bees something to hold on to when they feed on the syrup.
I did not look at the beetle trap because I did not want to keep the hive open very long and I did not want to have to lift off the feeder because it had syrup in it. I saw several beetle on the hive cover. I hope the trap will reduced their numbers before they get to point where they will destroy the honey.
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