Hello groups,

This message was by exception sent to the Norlandbeekeeper
and BEE-L groups to reach those of you that might winter hives
in the colder climates.

Yesterday my neigbour was busy cutting up and removing trees
that had fallen during the recent storms here. His tractor was for
over an hour idling and every now and then it was revved up to
winch in a log.
All that time the tractor stood in the snow, one meter away from
the hive that a friend of mine was allowed to leave with me for
the winter period (in autumn he didn't have enough space for the
hive on his property). The temperature was around -4C.

The hive was not opened by me afterwards to check, I didn't
want to disturb these girls more still.
Anyway, I wondered what the chances would be that the bees
got disturbed so much by the vibrations and noise that they would
break away from the cluster and what the results could be if this
happened?
Are there any experiences on this?

I couldn't say much to my neighbour, since it was on the boarder
of our properties, the trees obviously had to be taken care of and
the only position from where he could pull the logs out of the
forrest was just next to that hive.

Ron van Mierlo
Sweden

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