WallyG74
🤠 Big Floppy 🛸🏴☠️
I forget way more than I remember. Have you ever posted pics of your long hive? I really want to build one but I feel I need to establish that I can keep them alive in a simpler hive first.Checked my hives and 2 of the 3 were dead outs.
The long hive overwintered again fine. One of the hives was out in the open in my orchard without a windbreak. I did cover my hives with the flannel cover thing but a week of -43'F windchill was just too much for them. The were sitting on their honey reserves in the cluster dead.
I have a lot of cleaning to do. For now, I sorted the stuff that was fine and the stuff that needs cleaning. That will have to be for another day.
The surviving hive was robbing the dead outs which is fine too.