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In a message dated 21/01/2008 01:21:40 GMT Standard Time,
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Have you checked?
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Hi Chris and all
Dave lives 100-200km northeast of me. Tonight at 6:30 it is -14C
cooling down from a high today of -10C. His weather will be cooler.
As all beekeeping is local, no opening hives here yet.
I take that to be a 'No' then. When I learnt beekeeping I believed the
books that said that brood rearing ceases in winter. Now I know that this is not
so, at least in this area (southern UK). A beekeeper in the far north of
England where it is much colder (by our standards) by way of study opened her
hives all through one winter and found no broodless period. So it isn't true
there either.
Would you like to check yours, Bob, and report? If you don't want to tear
your hive apart, how about surreptitiously dangling a thermometer in the
cluster (or an electronic probe of you have one handy) and see if they are
maintaining brood rearing temperatures (34C I think) in the centre? If they are
maintaining that temperature can you think of any reason for that except for
rearing brood?
Chris
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