As it is true in our nature to journey inward and condense and concentrate our energy in the home place, tending to and bringing in our final crops before the frosts to store for the winter, so it is also true for the hives to go inward and condense and cluster together to be in a communing of collective warmth and togetherness. The bees will generate warmth by detaching there wing muscles and using their wing muscles to vigorously vibrate next to one another. The honey is eaten as food for this energetic work, becoming a transfer of food into warmth, thereby warming the hive with the honey.
Any additional space, extra boxes above filled with honey are removed and the surplus honey is either harvested or stored away for feeding through the winter and in the early spring next year.
