02.25.2022
66*F
I put five hives to winter. Three were 10 frame boxes and two were nucs. I tipped them up from time to time over the winter, and they would be a little lighter each time. By December I was fully expecting the nuc on the end to be a dead hive come spring, and a little curious what the outcome of the middle 10 frame would be. I never supplemented them, just monitored them occasionally. I would always see bees on warm days even in the last nuc that truly felt like it was just an empty box.
Today it was 66*F so I thought I?d go see just how dead the bees were and add a frame or two of bees to the nuc if another hive could afford to spare them.
I opened the little nuc up and found a few frames of bees in both the top and bottom box, the queen and brood.
I closed them up.
Then I got interested to see what was in the biggest hive that was a deep and two medium boxes going into winter.
There was sooooooo much brood, some honey on the sides, drones and empty swarm cups. Knee jerk reaction was to put TWO boxes on top of partially drawn foundation.
At now 5 boxes high I put the lid back on.
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