>Starvation is low risk if keeper ensures adequate honey stores.

I understand that starvation is of low risk so long as colonies are not
maintaining a broodnest.
What I often hear from East Coast beekeepers is of the broodnest getting
separated from honey stores above when late-winter warm weather initiates
broodrearing, and then it turns cold again.
Although I have often seen late-winter starvation of colonies in almonds,
it's warm enough for them to reach honey stores.  I suspect that it is
different in the East, where it gets much colder.

Comments anyone?  No need to tell us how cold it gets in your area, just
whether you see the above occur.

Randy Oliver
Grass Valley, CA
530 277 4450
ScientificBeekeeping.com


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