MrPea
New Bee
- Joined
- Aug 20, 2012
- Messages
- 76
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- Location
- Saffron Walden
- Hive Type
- WBC
- Number of Hives
- 2
...well, last year I opened the hive and found all of the bees on the floor very much no longer alive. It's warm outside so just popped off the lid (didn't pull any frames) to see what's going on, and to put a littl fondant in a bag on top, and low and behold, both hives are quite full...like 11 seams of bees. Have I missed something? Aren't they supposed to be all dead? Have I actually just brought 2 hives through the winter? There are some capped stores on the tops of some of the frames, I don't know about the bottoms of course, and I've no idea about brood or whether there's a queen in there...but there are actual bees...alive ones at that!!