Lloyd asked about the convective currents inside a hive with follower
boards.

I'm one of the few beekeepwer I know who still uses follower boards.  As far
as the convective currents in the hive, I imagine (I have not checked
specifically in my follower board hives for this) that the warm air would
rise to the inner cover, begin to cool and fall down ALL sides of the hive
(front, back, left and right.  I have never examined to see if there is
frost between the inside left and right walls and the follower boards (I DO
run them in positions 1 and 10 - actually it's 1/2 and 9 1/2) but I imagine
the described convective currents could be so.  I screw small screws into
the sides of my follower boards to keep them spaced properly to assure that
bees do not get crushed between follower board and hive wall.  It could be
this "vent" space to which the author refers.  However, the design of the
follower boards do not make an air tight chimney along the side of the hive,
mine are basically the same dimensions (L and w) as a frame.  With the screw
spacers, each is half as fat as a drawm frame.

This would be a job for Jerry's electronic hives to monitor the convectiove
currents inside a follower board "enhanced" hive!

Aaron Morris - thinking I'll read the article tonight!

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