Bees clustered at the entrance of hive

[Dawn_SD]

@mmcbascon

I def would not know what I am looking for as far as mites🤔what is a sugar roll?

As I mentioned, you can use the forum Search tool (magnifying glass upper right of this screen). This is one of the links that I found using it to search for sugar roll:

New Beekeeper 2nd week inspection New Jersey USA

I would take it off next time you inspect. They probably won’t need feeding for a few months, if at all. If you leave it on, it is more dead space for them to heat (they keep the brood at 34 to 35C), and bees tend to do nefarious things to extras left on the hive. Things like building creative comb in unexpected places, or gumming stuff up unhelpfully with tons of propolis. I treat for mites when the counts say I need to treat or if I see DWV signs. Generally this is March, August and …