Hi Tim,

Thanks for the information.  We have some different problems here in Maine.
I'm loathe to heft my hives in cold weather because they're thoroughly
frozen to their stands, and I hate to disturb the bees with the snap of
breaking the bottom board loose with a wrecking bar.  We have no inner cover
with a hole in winter, but a box with a screen bottom filled with shavings.
We will however feed the little gluttons all they will eat.

Bill Morong