Do you know what this is?

You’re looking at a couple of bee hives in Centerville, New Brunswick, as they appeared today.

As Tony Pope reports in the Bee Talk section, he spent this afternoon in one of his bee yards, digging the hives out from under more than a foot and a half of snow — for the third time this winter!

And somehow, he still had the energy to snap a sequence of photographs to document the adventure…

While a good snow cover makes excellent insulation for bees, as cold-climate beekeepers know, a buried hive is too much of a good thing. These bees might very well have been in danger of suffocation, without Tony’s labour to dig them out again!

Click on any of the thumbnail photographs at the left, to see a larger version.