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Message: <blockquote data-quote="2beefarm" data-source="post: 13994" data-attributes="member: 946">Really useful checklist, thanks for laying it out like this — genuinely bookmarking it.One I'd add: robbing. Late-season/dearth, bees fighting right at the entrance, wax cappings or comb debris on the landing board, and that erratic zigzag "casing the joint" flight from bees that aren't quite landing — that reads as robbing rather than a health symptom, and the fix is narrowing the entrance immediately rather than treating it like something's wrong inside the hive.Curious how much of this stays visual/pattern-based for people here vs anyone tracking entrance traffic more quantitatively (in-vs-out counts, time-of-day patterns) as an earlier signal before it's visually obvious. Seems like a real gap between what experienced eyes catch instinctively and what's actually been measured.</blockquote>

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