hello,
I checked my hive yesterday and the bees are gone but I have a LOT of honey left in both supers.
I live in NE and have had a very cold winter. I ordered more bees just in case I lost my hive. My question is what do I have to do to the hive to accept the new bees, canm I leave the honey in the hve and just add bees?[/QUOTE I will probably get a lot of disagreement here, but if nothing looked unusual about the hive I would just add the bees to your empty hive. I lost 5 hives out of 18 this winter and I intend to add bees back into these hives with the comb and honey that was left in them.