Welp, hopefully this next year will have a little better weather for the bees.
I'm very thankful to have harvested what I did, my best year yet for honey. I sold all of it I wanted to. The optimism in me hasn't died out!
I'm looking forward to those warm spring days when the flowers are blooming and the bees are flying. We're on the other side of the short days now, it won't be long!
As far as I can tell I don't have too bad of a problem with SHB, but I went ahead and got some of these anti-beetle entrances:
https://guardianbhe.com/
They might help your situation.
I was looking at the hybrid queens from this guy:
https://newriverhoneybees.com/