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Thanks so much for the advice, I'm on the foam board quest!

Appreciate your feed back. The weather has been wonky the last couple of years and we've had some harder than usual freezes as well. Thinking insulation would be a good idea for both. Is there something that is standard for this? I had bought Italian bees to make it easier for me being a newbie...

Many thanks!

Also, should i plug up the vent holes with wine corks? The lady I bought this from had never kept bees it came as a kit from what I gathered.

How would I move to doing that? Gradual leaving two entrances then close the middle or just go for it and switch while they're out and it's not busy?

To start this is my first hive and have only had it since spring plus, I don't know anyone that has a top bar. Add to that the information I have found seems that the top bars can very greatly in almost every aspect. In my effort to figure out what I was doing I had found something online that...

Good advice! Thank you.

I appreciate the post being 3 months into my first hive of Italians in South Texas and not knowing what the "right thing" to do is. I've been following my gut. We've had a very unusually stormy spring, so after they arrived I've just been monitoring the feed. Which has steadily and greatly...