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Re: Hive Temperatures
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On 11/12/2010 3:00 PM, Peter L Borst wrote:
> But leaving aside theory, my neighbor Tom Seeley has kept bees in Upstate NY for 40 years. What does he do? He winters the colonies in ordinary two story hives, with adequate honey. No wrapping, no upper entrance, no fuss. Some make it, some don't.

Surely the whole point of agriculture is to maximise the number that do 
make it.  Every hive that dies is a black mark against that beekeeper's 
husbandry.

Geoff Manning

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