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Thank you both for your insight.

One of my hives has about 1/2 of the amount of honey I generally want to have for a hive to overwinter. The hive has struggled all summer to build up like it should and now is in two mediums with...

One of my hives was struggling this spring so I requeened it. During the summer its numbers never really grew as large as I wanted, but I always found brood and eggs along with honey stores. I...

I split a couple of hives and one of the split hives didn't have enough honey to make it through a cold snap and I lost the entire hive. I have several frames with dead brood at various stages and...

The bees are carniolas. The bees are in Utah. Our winter is usually quite cold and long. We recently had a real cold period after some rather warm weather. The bees are out in the open.

There were no signs of Nosema or other diseases in either hive.

I started two hives last spring. Both produced quite a bit of honey for a first year. I left them each two deeps full of honey and a medium each half full of honey. I just went through each hive and...

There certainly is honey on both sides of the clusters.

Thank you each for your responses. This is much appreciated.

Thank you each for your responses. This is much appreciated.

This is my first winter with two hives. It was over 50 degrees, which in Utah is pretty warm for January, and the bees were flying, so I opened the hives to check how they were doing. There were far...

Any ideas of where I can sell extra wax?