# Baby bees in my super? **URL:** \ **Category:** Uncategorized\ **Created:** [March 11, 2026, 4:28pm UTC](https://forum.honeyflow.com/t/baby-bees-in-my-super/40212 "2026-03-11T16:28:08Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 2
**Author:** ![Eva](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/dbc845/32.png) [@Eva](https://forum.honeyflow.com/u/Eva)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2026, 12:18pm UTC](https://forum.honeyflow.com/t/baby-bees-in-my-super/40212/2 "2026-03-13T12:18:54Z")
Hi Veronica and welcome to the forum. I’m glad you came here to get some input - beginning beekeeping is a huge learning curve and using a Flow hive does pose certain nuances that aren’t necessarily obvious when you start out. The bees in your photos aren’t babies but full-grown workers, that look pretty dead to me. They came up during the winter looking for food and probably got too chilled/damp to survive the trip back to the cluster. Out in Indy like here in PA where the winters are several months long and can be very cold, we need to take Flow supers off at the end of the nectar flow. It’s good you had some insulation on the hive, but leaving the Flow super on was counterproductive to that effort. There are lots of great posts that explain the reasons for this and include all the info you need when getting ready for winter with a Flow hive - here’s one: > [@How to winter bees in cold upstate NY using Flowhive](https://forum.honeyflow.com/t/how-to-winter-bees-in-cold-upstate-ny-using-flowhive/34268): > > I am a beginner starting with a Flowhive 2 in upstate NY. I am curious about how to winter the bees. I see most remove the Flow Super in winter. Is there enough honey in the brood box for the bees to get through winter? Do you add a 2nd brood box or do you always feed the bees through the winter? If feeding, do you give them dry sugar? Candy? Sugar water feeders would freeze I would think. Thank you for any insight. Have you checked the brood box, and if so what did you find? If you haven’t taken off the Flow super yet, definitely do it now. If your bees survived, they need controlled space to start with and won’t be ready for supering until the weather is above 40f at night and there’s a good nectar flow on. If they didn’t, you’ll need to protect your unguarded equipment from pests and put it away for now. Stay with us here, ask more questions, and let us know how things go! PS: when the Birds don’t make it I am a Colts fan FYI 🐎🏈 lots of family in Indy! --- _[View the full topic](https://forum.honeyflow.com/t/baby-bees-in-my-super/40212)._