Even on a not-so-warm day like this one, we’d hope to see many more bees on the tops of the frames when a wintered hive is opened in spring. There is a functioning queen in here, with some new brood and just a couple of handfuls of bees, so we decide to move them all into a 4-frame nuc box with a couple frames of stored honey. That way, there is less space for the bees to try to heat, so the colony might have a chance to build up.
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Field Day Beekeeping Photographs: Spring Inspection
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