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Please help me unveil the following: My hive was thriving a month ago. Plenty of bees, enough brood, and honey. I checked them today. I saw a drastically dwindled colony, no pests, except for a few hive beetle, and a wasp flying outside by the entrance. No signs of dead bees by entrance. There...

Keeping bees in the High Desert seems to be a tough go. The dearth pretty much starts in August and the last freeze is in April. The winters are somewhat mild but we do have nights into the teens and daytime temps that often keep the bees indoors. I have seen hail on Memorial Day, 90* days in...