> 
> We see bees collecting water right through the winter when temperatures are
> high enough to enable them to fly - perhaps down to 5ºC - and they are
> certainly not collecting it to cool the hives!
> 

We put a 5 gal pail of water with floats in each yard.  The highest consumption is during cool/rainy spells in the spring - the yard will empty the pail in less than a week.  After that they hardly use it, unless we have several weeks of drought.

Adam
Barrie,ON
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