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At last! Sunny, dry, nearly warm, and it was time to set their ladyships up for their spring expansion. Lovely clean floors all round and the old floors carefully stacked with their debris ready to be sent off in the post.

This winter we experimented with polystyrene insulation above the crown boards for all, and dummy boards and polystyrene in place of unused comb for the two nucs. We couldn't have known just how severe the winter would be but the experiment ...

Yesterday I checked the final two nucs and found that one was down to two frames of bees but no queen whereas the other had just a handful of bees and a queen. The one with the queen is a colony I overwintered in the garden shed which had barely 2 frames of bees in November. It's surprising it survived at all given the lack of bees for heat generation in the winter we have just had.
I decided to combine them rather than loose the bees from the queenless nuc.
I brought the queenright ...