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White band at the top is honey, big patch in the middle is capped and uncapped brood. Friendly pointer, learn how to rotate your top bar frames while inspecting and wear at the very least a veil,...

Adding foundation or foundationless frames between capped brood may solve your problem.

If my memory serves me well, don't bees have trouble communicating short distances very close to the hive.
Please someone correct me if this is incorrect.

More than ever before here, 12 of 25 in the month of April. Great build up with tons of bees this spring. Main flow with tulip poplar about ten days away in my area.

Will 1 deep with mediums above work ie will bees winter in the deep without a med below. All opinions welcome.

If no drought in the fall allow the bees to use fall flow to raise fat bees for winter.
After first killing frost check stores to see if feeding is needed.
I winter with one deep and one med of...

I insert each wire from the transformer into the brass eyelets on opposite ends takes 2 seconds or less per wire.

Always remember the brood chamber is not the size of the box, it's whichever ones the brood is actually located in.

You are correct I have four distinct seasons, not familiar with your conditions.

Always leave enough honey when possible. Then I let mother nature and Walt Wrights Checkerboarding do the rest.

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Providing the proper housing and resources to hopefully receive payment occasionally.
Bees are free to come and go at will or just leave. I believe I'm a bee landlord.

Keep them in freezer to feed if needed or start a nuc or swarm its always good to have a few extra honey frames on hand.

Do you have any drawn comb to insert between the honey frames? This would encourage more brood building.

I always have a few drones that over winter.

You said mixed in with brood. Random mixing? Failing Queen? or actual drone brood?

My thoughts too. You saved me the time of typing.

They will brood up better if you put in the bottom boards. (debris boards) imo

Proper backfilling within the brood nest during fall closeout, should be checked as well.

Any feeding now would be considered emergency feeding. September and early October is the best time to get stores ready for winter. How much stores do they have, they may not need your help.

You can't propagate dead bees. Keep the week ones alive for mating nucs in the spring. How many queens did you graft and mate this year?

" Practicing non intervention beekeeping" Feeding is intervention and you should have known 6 to 8 weeks ago which hives were week.

I'm always curious, did your bees need feeding and what configuration are your colonies?

Just wait and see. Bet someone told you to feed, feed, feed, I never feed until after goldenrod and then only if needed which is rare. Feeding is a double edged sword that few people talk about. ...

Did these queens have any empty cells to lay in a few weeks back when they made the decision to make swarm preps ?

If you don't mind me asking how much you been feeding if you have been feeding?