Haven’t heard from others but half of my home yard is already gone. Oddly, all of them were on the east half of the yard (which doesn’t get morning sun)

PLB


I always recommend placing hives where the sun will shine on them on Christmas day!.  I once opened a hive (possibly empty but I can't remember) when the sun was very low in the winter evening and, putting hands inside on the sunny and the shaded sides, was amazed at the difference in temperature.  The hive was cedar wood.  My impression is that winter sunshine, almost horizontally hitting the vertical sides of the hive, raises the temperature enough for the girls on the outside of the cluster to go to the larder and make a round of sandwiches to share with their sisters, thus avoiding isolation starvation.


Chris

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