Morning Marcin

Are the boxes you use truly 7 frame boxes or are they 8 frame or 10 frame boxes with only 7 frames?  I find that my bees start the winter in the centre of the brood chamber then move gradually right(viewed from the back) throughout the winter.  Often there are one or two frames of stores next to the east wall because the bees have moved towards the warm side of the hive caused by the afternoon sun.

Bob Darrell
Caledon Ontario
Canada 44N80W

> I use mostly 7 frame hives and have found that my local carni mutts
> utilize that space efficiently. Their winter cluster tends to be about 7
> frames worth, and, as it moves upward, they don't leave much food in the
> outside frames, so pretty much all of the food gets consumed. I use 3
> 7frame deeps for wintering.
> 

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