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There are alternatives. You can make your own unembossed foundation, ie without the cell imprint. Just dip a piece of wet wood ,cut to the right size, into melted wax 3 or 4 times.
Google "DIY...

Cacklewack is right. It's also better to feed a little and often, otherwise the bees will start storing it reducing the potential brood area and even causing the bees to swarm.

Relax and enjoy...

If you really struggled to get the inner cover off, just that could have alarmed the bees and made them hot temporarily. Or if you have just moved the hive that could make the bees hot. Waiting for...

Ideas 1 and 3 probably. Maybe the queen got injured along the way and was replaced.
Either way keep an eye out on the queens performance, one reared in a small colony without plentiful stores may...

could you post a picture of the yellow and the white grainy stuff.

No mites? Are you sure? Did you treat and if so did you check that it was successful.

"two or three dozen capped brood cells - a few with hatchlings dead on the way out of the cells." sounds like...

I use burlap/hessian as inner-covers on a British national/Zander hives. I like it a great deal as you can gently peel back the inner-cover without much disturbance to the bees. Two issues with cloth...

I tried the grow down method eight times without much success, never again. They did swarm as Bernhard warns.

Have I got this right,
They have enough syrup and sub for 10 days or so.
They are warm, blanket and heater.
They have free access 24/7
the weather looks good for a few days.

You have done...

12 hives in summer, took some loses in autumn, bad queens. Down to 8. Winter was so warm like a heat wave until Feb, trouble is trees, birds and bees thought it was spring, a month of frost n snow...

Have a look at this switch, it will turn your heater off and on for you, but leave a 15 min gap between shut down and power on.
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I would make a "show of effort" so it looks like you have done everything you can.
" but the flight lines of my bees do generally go over his house." Turn the hives so the entrances face a different...

Take a look here
http://uk.groups.yahoo.com/group/warrebeekeeping/message/22110

this guy has put hives in his Atic

Works for me, I caught 3 swarms last season.
All the info you need is here
http://ecommons.cornell.edu/bitstream/1813/2653/2/Bait%20Hives%20for%20Honey%20Bees.pdf

Seeley says bees have no...