Skunk Cabbage

March 13, seven days until the Spring equinox, and already warm days allow for the girls to venture out in search of early pollen. They did not touch the sugar I left for them, and seem to still have enough honey. Yesterday a co-worker told me stories of her less fortunate bees who had honey in the hive box, but starved looking in the wrong cells for it, and other bives that ran out all together.
Warm days last week allowed the bees to leave the hive in search of pollen. Perhaps finding skunk cabbage somewhere, New England's first Spring growth. Bear cubs come out of hibernation mid-April, so I need to keep my mind on putting up another electric fence.