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Ultimate Beehive Outer Cover Guide (2025)

Every spring, I get calls from new urban beekeepers frantic because their colony absconded after the first heavy rain. The culprit is almost never disease or poor forage—it’s a failing beehive outer cover. In a city, your hive’s roof is doing triple duty: shielding the colony from wind tunnels…