Late October now and the bees are starting to bunch together. Below you can see the honey area is mostly empty of bees now.

Now they are clustering together in the middle as the days get colder.

I am getting a little worried that the bees that filled the hive a few weeks ago are now down to just a couple of frames in the middle. I hope there are enough to last until spring.

December 11 and it was very mild so I went and peeked at them again. They were still bunched up in the middle. There are dead bees by the entrance but I read that that would happen during the winter and that the bees will clean them out when it warms up. I plugged up two of the entrance holes for the winter.