Thanks for your recap of the last few years of beekeeping-and all the 
comments by others.
I sure agree that in my experience, deep shade and moisture are harmful to 
bees and greatly decrease  productivity in extreme conditions. -this is also 
true with controlling SHB. I remember reading a study in ABJ a couple years 
back about hives in shade vs sun... the hives in the sun were more 
productive and to the best of my memory even the mite leveles were lower.

John Horton
N Alabama 

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