Keep it simple is the best advice. I lost an entire apiary (3 hives) on
the Isle of Portland during the winter (1 queenless - I saw drones at
Christmas!, 1 isolation starvation, 1 rodents). I tidied the hives up and left
them there. Now they all have bees that arrived by themselves.
Chris
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