A bear made it through the electric fencing that was enclosing 12 beehives and completely destroyed most of them. It may have been a couple of weeks, including several days of 20 degree temperatures, before I discovered it. Most impressive is that five of the beehives were resilient enough to survive, boxes completely opened and toppled upside down. I was able to put the beehives back together and cross my fingers that they would survive the remainder of the winter, as it was much too cold to perform an inspection to determine if the queens were still alive.

As of last Sunday, the five remaining beehives are doing well and there is evidence of queens in them!