Great solution, Nick!! Definitely feed them as they work on acclimating and more building. As I consider this I realize it’s most feasible and prob best to just put on a top feeder, so your new nuc bees have it & since the original colony will eventually get up there. At this time of year an entrance feeder is more a robbing risk than benefit.
Keep an eye on it and you’ll soon see bees carrying bits of newspaper out!
Works better with sports and comic section of the newspaper. They’ll get a buzz out of that. 
Where in Connecticut do you live? I am in New Canaan and also a first year beekeeper. I have 2 brood boxes and a flow super. I plan to extract all the honey from the super and limit the hive to one brood box for the winter. I will add an empty box on top with a top feeder which will supply 2/1 sugar water. I also plan to insulate the hive on the sides and under the roof. The hive has been very strong all summer so I am hopeful it will do well over the winter.
Hi Michael, I’m in North Stamford. I’m glad to hear your bees are doing so well, and produced honey in your Flow super! My bees did not get to the point where I felt comfortable putting the Flow super on - maybe next year!
Thanks, so will you overwinter with just 1 brood box and feed your colony with sugar water?
If your 2 brood boxes are both full, you should really overwinter with both. Is one of them mostly empty?
Hi folks,
To those on this thread who helped my diagnose three weeks ago that my hive was queenless, after which I obtained a new queen and four frames of brood and honey, I wanted to let you know that when I did an inspection two days ago, I found the colony appearing to be in good health. I saw the queen, and many frames had capped brood and larvae.
Here is the frame with the queen on it:
And here is the Google Photos album with the pictures of the rest of the frames.
One thing that concerned me was not seeing a lot of capped honey, though I did see a fair amount of nectar in uncapped cells, and bee bread. I’ve been feeding them 2:1 and 3:1 syrup on and off, should I continue to do that, or do they seem to have enough for now?
Thanks!
Nick
You will get mixed thinking about feeding Nick. My thoughts are if the is nectar coming into the hive then the bees will normally stop feeding on the syrup so stop feeding them. But as your Winter is on its way then you may need to feed later on as the colony consumes first the nectar then the honey stores.
Have a closer look at the frame with the queen on it, just to her left and other cells on the frame I’m seeing cells that might be chalk brood, the dry looking white cells. Nothing to be greatly concerned about at this stage but if it gets worse then let us know.
Apart from that it all looks really good.
Cheers
