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Like you @Toni I used them this year too and my hives stayed dry and the girls in one hive are quite attached to it, literally. I have a 2-1/2 inch mountain camp feeder under it and the cluster is attached to the bottom of the quilt into the feeder with hardly any bees in the brood box. I suppose they will go down sooner or later when the queen starts laying. Actually I'm surprised that the queen hasn't started laying yet as warm as it has been. Getting 2 more nucs this spring so I'm building more quilt boxes but using 2X6 boards for the boxes since I have a lot of dry 2X6s laying around.


Note that I held the fabric up from the bottom of the box

and that I rolled a piece of lath inside the fabric and nailed inside the box which pulls it tighter


I'm filling mine with cedar shavings.