{"id":71,"date":"2010-02-15T15:18:31","date_gmt":"2010-02-15T20:18:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.westnyackhoney.com\/bees\/?p=71"},"modified":"2010-02-15T15:18:31","modified_gmt":"2010-02-15T20:18:31","slug":"martha-hive-still-alive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.westnyackhoney.com\/bees\/martha-hive-still-alive\/","title":{"rendered":"Martha Hive Still Alive"},"content":{"rendered":"

The temperature went up into the mid 40s F and since I was off for president’s day, I decided to feed Martha some pollen substitute. I have a few slabs in the freezer. Martha and Connie had dead bees outside their front doors, which I expect is from mid winter cleaning.<\/p>\n

I opened Martha and quickly set the pollen patty over the frames near where they were clustered. There was a visible mass of bees just below the top of the frames and they were moving. As I put the top back on, one slow moving girl came out of the hive to challenge me. I hope she made it back in as I quickly as I left.<\/p>\n

By the way, yesterday, February 14, was my Aunt Connie’s 92nd birthday. Happy birthday Aunt Connie. (My granddfather was reading a book when she was born in which the heroine was named Consuela. He liked the name, but he pronounced it Con-Sue-Ella.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The temperature went up into the mid 40s F and since I was off for president’s day, I decided to feed Martha some pollen substitute. I have a few slabs in the freezer. Martha and Connie had dead bees outside their front doors, which I expect is from mid winter cleaning. I opened Martha and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.westnyackhoney.com\/bees\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.westnyackhoney.com\/bees\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.westnyackhoney.com\/bees\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.westnyackhoney.com\/bees\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.westnyackhoney.com\/bees\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.westnyackhoney.com\/bees\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.westnyackhoney.com\/bees\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.westnyackhoney.com\/bees\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.westnyackhoney.com\/bees\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}