Three questions about the queen, on every visit
You will not see the queen most times you open a hive, and you do not need to. Three readings tell you what she has been doing since you were last there.
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Reading a colony, and what the numbers you write down are worth later.
What closed brood tells you three weeks early
Recording capped brood separately from eggs is the single most useful thing you can do in an inspection. Here is the arithmetic behind why.
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