My daughter’s colony survived their first New England winter (yay!) and we did our first inspection of the year a few days ago. We have two deeps, and all but about four frames are fully combed out. We saw a good number of bees, and the queen, a good amount of worker brood, and there were about nine frame sides that had some honey stores on them.
The inspection pictures can be found here.
We are wondering: is now a good time to add our Flow honey super? If not, what indicator should we wait for? We don’t want them to swarm in the next few months, and understand that if we add a honey super with a queen excluder, it will give them more flexibility to use their space and have room to grow without swarming.
