> However Lloyd's advice of asking your beekeeping
> neighbours is sound.

Unfortunately, the few beekeepers I know around do not
use styrofoam hives, as far as I know. Nevertheless,
they all wrap their wooden hives. So, if I consider L.
Spear's post on Styrofoam R value and his conculsion,
I guess I should wrap my styrofoam hives as well (my
wooden hives are already wraped).

I read a lot about wintering and wraping (books, Bee-L
archives and current discussion, Bio-bee list, many
web sites among those Allen Dick's site, Chapeleau's
site and Dave Cushman's site, etc.). So I am aware of
different "wintering and wraping recepes". But I find
hard to make my own rational and logical opinion among
those different theories and discussions. The old long
debate between closed top versus top ventilation is
probably the best example.
I understand that the wintering and wraping strategy
depends on the local climate. But I am under the -
maybe - naive impression that scandinavian winter
should not be so different from winter in East Canada
(because of vegetation and lanscape similitudes). So I
wonder why wintering insulation methodologies seem to
be conflicting.

Hervé
Québec - Canada




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