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I definitely could ave missed a queen cell, what seemed odd to be was that none of the hives seemed to be reduced in size from the previous inspection. All were still booming with bees.

Yesterday afternoon I was heading back to the part of the property where my hives are located to pull a couple of brood frames from the strong hives in order to boost a couple of new packages I had...

I used these last summer to goo effect. My only issues were at the bottom edge of the screen as Rod indicated and on some hives the underside was filled with burr comb. The underside of the plastic...

Maybe I was the wrong terminology in saying absconding, the previous week or so they appeared to be fine with good population and some stores and brood.

It probably was as you suspect the moths...

I am trying to winter NUCs for the first time this year, I made up 4 in the Palmer fashion culling frames of brood and stores to make up the colonies and then adding mated queens.

I constructed...

Thanks for the response, feed is fresh and the other hives in the same yard are taking it so I don't think they are working anything substantial.

I will check and manipulate the frames as needed...

I acquired a couple of NUCs from a local club member this year to add to my apiary and by the time I took delivery we were pretty much in a dearth due to the drought conditions locally. The supplier...

I had this same problem, even caused the feeder to stick to the tops of the frames below!

I don't have pics handy but what I did was take some tempered masonite and cut it so it fit pretty tight...