Getting into the Winter Mode

The queen has started slowing down on laying eggs.The workers are storing honey in cells where no eggs have been laid to prepare for food during the winter. In the next week or so I will take the honey supers where excess honey was stored,that I extract and bottle the honey. After the supers are taken off,then their will be only the brood box where the queen was laying eggs and young bees were being born.I will start feeding them sugar water to help them eat it instead of all their honey supplies for winter.I will feed them sugar candy or such when it starts getting real cold,to help them survive winter

Planted 6 aster plants, which is a drop in the hat for the bees to pollinate. Each bee can visit 500 plants in a day. I would need acres of asters for them to get the pollen and nectar that they need. I live by a college that does research on crops, which ones do better in drought, wet weather etc. I just noticed that they planted half acre of late sunflowers, I'm sure when they head out or bloom,my bees will find them, only about a quarter mile away, which bees can fly up to 5 miles to look for food, but the more they fly the more their wings wear out, so better to keep the flowers and crops close.