I live in WI and overwintered my hive with two deeps and one super. I went last night to pull the super so no brood is produced in it to replace with a top feeder, but noticed the bees were still tight to one side where there was honey stores so decided to leave it on as there is nothing blooming here yet. I am currently just using an open feeder but would really like to switch to the top feeder. This past week it was in the 50-60s here but next week suppose to drop into mid to high 20s at night again with low 40 during the day.
My question is what do you recommend:
1. Leave super on and continue to open feed until it warms up more? Also concerned they will start storing sugar water in super if left on.
2. Pull the super and add top feeder? What if queen is in cluster that is in the super.
3. Put feeder on top of super. Won't this ensure sugar water will be stored in super?
My question is what do you recommend:
1. Leave super on and continue to open feed until it warms up more? Also concerned they will start storing sugar water in super if left on.
2. Pull the super and add top feeder? What if queen is in cluster that is in the super.
3. Put feeder on top of super. Won't this ensure sugar water will be stored in super?