Black spots/mould? at end of honey flow channel

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Wintering your Flow Frames is discussed a fair bit on the forum. Here is the topic:

Wintering your Flow Hive

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You can freeze the Flow Frames, and this is the easiest option if you have the freezer space in my opinion.

Here is a topic which mentions the condensation issue and then mould after leaving the Flow Supers on over winter when there wasn’t a high enough flow on.

Notes on leaving flow super over winter

I have a hive that has now had its flow super on it for two winters. Last season at the end of autumn the frames were half full of honey- over winter the frames remained uncapped but half full. In spring the bees finished them off and I harvested… This year I harvested them at the end of autumn and they went into winter empty… since then no honey has gone in and bee activity is low. Now the frames are damp with condensation on the view window. And the frames have gone a bit black with- I assume…

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