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Thank you - you give me hope. It's been cold lately and I've been worried about them. It's been too cold/rainy to open up the hive and check, so they have their feed and hopefully they will make...

If you are not familiar with the area, I am 1/2 way between Sacramento and Lake Tahoe on 80 in the foothills.

Less than 1 frame from what I saw, but I didn't want to disturb them too much by messing with the hive, so I just pulled one empty frame out and moved the others to see down between the frames.

Good to know, thank you!

I'm hoping to get into a beekeeping class this year. Gosh I underestimated this adventure!

So, dumb question. Should the queen be rearing brood this time of year? I was envisioning a sort of hibernation of the hive this time of year, then resuming brood rearing in the early spring - but...

Should I put the plastic back in the screened bottom board and see if there are any mites? Any other ways to check?

I'm going to sound really dumb here, but I don't even know. I got the Nuc from Sacramento Beekeeping and never thought to ask.

Near Auburn.

Not any treatments other than putting the plastic in the screened bottom board. I don't have it in now though.

Yes, that is what I bought. I didn't do a complete hive inspection, so I don't know if they are rearing brood or not. As this is my first winter, I don't know what is "normal".

I'm in Northern CA and new to beekeeping. I installed a NUC in May. In the fall, I had a very strong hive. I noticed their stores were getting low, so I started feeding them sugar syrup again. (I...