I emailed the contacts on the Manitoba site to get a feel for how this works, choosing the correct temperature I would imagine would be critical.
Adam, - I've managed to get Apideas over the winter , its the spring that messes things up, the numbers of bees dwindle to a dangerous level before brood rearing can replace them, and they are very greedy on stores. A frost usually kills them off so heat mat should work. jon manages to get them into the spring using a doubled up box with a total of 10 frames and i think a top feeder so there is a good starting number of bees
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