{"id":264,"date":"2013-10-09T22:52:45","date_gmt":"2013-10-10T02:52:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/halfastfarm.com\/?p=264"},"modified":"2013-10-09T23:14:57","modified_gmt":"2013-10-10T03:14:57","slug":"beekeeping-winterizing-hives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/halfastfarm.com\/?p=264","title":{"rendered":"Beekeeping &#8211; Winterizing Hives"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been getting cooler in the evenings (down into the mid 40&#8217;s F), so\u00a0I decided to make the cut over to solid bottom boards, reduce entrances, and leave vent covers in place for a bit more. Came back later that evening and put insulation on in the dark (after I finished a 4-H obligation).<\/p>\n<p>Hint: At about 1:12 in the video you can see my reaction to one of the\u00a0little ladies making a\u00a0quick ascent up my leg inside my pants\u00a0(sorry I went off camera though).\u00a0I didn&#8217;t get stung,\u00a0but the neighbors got a show!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/0m0R19HRVqg\" height=\"315\" width=\"420\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/halfastfarm.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Insulated-Hives-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-265\" alt=\"Insulated Hives (2)\" src=\"http:\/\/halfastfarm.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Insulated-Hives-2-300x200.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"http:\/\/halfastfarm.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Insulated-Hives-2-300x200.jpg 300w, http:\/\/halfastfarm.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Insulated-Hives-2-1024x682.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/halfastfarm.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Insulated-Hives-2-640x426.jpg 640w, http:\/\/halfastfarm.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Insulated-Hives-2-780x520.jpg 780w, http:\/\/halfastfarm.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Insulated-Hives-2.jpg 1620w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/halfastfarm.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Insulated-Hives-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-266\" alt=\"Insulated Hives (1)\" src=\"http:\/\/halfastfarm.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Insulated-Hives-1-300x200.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"http:\/\/halfastfarm.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Insulated-Hives-1-300x200.jpg 300w, http:\/\/halfastfarm.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Insulated-Hives-1-1024x682.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/halfastfarm.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Insulated-Hives-1-640x426.jpg 640w, http:\/\/halfastfarm.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Insulated-Hives-1-780x520.jpg 780w, http:\/\/halfastfarm.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Insulated-Hives-1.jpg 1620w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been getting cooler in the evenings (down into the mid 40&#8217;s F), so\u00a0I decided to make the cut over to solid bottom boards, reduce entrances, and leave vent covers in place for a bit more. Came back later that evening and put insulation on in the dark (after I finished a 4-H obligation). Hint: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":266,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[12,61,11,15,16,59,60,58],"class_list":["post-264","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-beekeeping","tag-beehive","tag-beekeeping","tag-hive","tag-honey","tag-honey-bees","tag-insulating","tag-overwinter","tag-winterizing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/halfastfarm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/halfastfarm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/halfastfarm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/halfastfarm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/halfastfarm.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=264"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/halfastfarm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":277,"href":"http:\/\/halfastfarm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264\/revisions\/277"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/halfastfarm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/266"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/halfastfarm.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/halfastfarm.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/halfastfarm.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}