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Subject:	Overwintering Cluster Location in the Stack
From:	Russ Litsinger <[log in to unmask]>
Reply To:	Informed Discussion of Beekeeping Issues and Bee Biology <[log in to unmask]>
Date:	Wed, 8 Mar 2023 22:59:33 +0000
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>I can't imagine taking a colony into winter with the cluster already at the top of the hive ...

At least among the mutts we run in Western Kentucky, it is 80% of colonies that will set up on the top box at the first sign of cold weather. I've even experimented with adding boxes of stores atop the cluster after they set-up and they will typically move up into the new top box as soon as weather permits.

I suspect there is a genetic component at work that guides this behavior.

The other 20% operate they way you read about in the textbooks.

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