Not new to forum but finally hope to have bees

[jayj200]

mines a little drier 

[swflcpl]

And they're gone...

Sigh.  I'll have to try again in the spring.

Bobby

[GSF]

Sorry to hear about that. Look around your place, they may have not gone far.

[swflcpl]

They were such a small cluster. I feel bad for them as they didn't have much in the way of stores to take with them. :(

[iddee]

You tried, that's all you can do.

[jayj200]

when we got our first. the beek put a queen excluder on the entrance. then said leave it a week, then remove it

so we use it on all our new hives

[swflcpl]

Thanks for that info jayj.