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I had two hives fail due to being honey bound in june and replaced them with nucs in july.
Its been a tough year and they've really only filled out one deep. I'm feeding 2:1 pretty hard right now in hopes they fill out a second deep but my question is:
Is it better to go into winter with a full deep or a full deep and a partially full deep? Is 1/2 full acceptable? Whats the cut off? It seems like all the empty space might be difficult to heat and leaves a lot of potential for problems like hive beetles and wax moths?
Thanks for any insight
Its been a tough year and they've really only filled out one deep. I'm feeding 2:1 pretty hard right now in hopes they fill out a second deep but my question is:
Is it better to go into winter with a full deep or a full deep and a partially full deep? Is 1/2 full acceptable? Whats the cut off? It seems like all the empty space might be difficult to heat and leaves a lot of potential for problems like hive beetles and wax moths?
Thanks for any insight