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Date: | Mon, 8 Nov 2021 07:41:15 -0500 |
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Greetings,
I realize most of you have already read this publication about "winter prep," but I believe the article can be thought-provoking for the list, assuming it has not yet been dealt with.
This is the crux of the article:
"By trying to keep hive interiors “dry,” we may be helping the mites and stressing the bees!
The advantages to insulating hives and eliminating the top entrance include:
• Top insulation significantly reduces condensation on the inner cover
• Top and side insulation keeps the upper part of the hive warmer, and thus the cluster looser
• The cluster is better able to move to food stores
• There is no heat loss from the upper entrance/vent hole
• Colony consumes less honey because the cluster does not need to work as hard to maintain core
cluster temperature.
• Colony recycles condensation in order to thin honey and produce brood food"
Source:
file:///C:/Users/drkim/Documents/Bees/Wintering/Pages%20from%20Volume35Issue2.pdf
As far as the list does not get into the fine minutia of *paralysis of analysis*, we could reexamine our winter prep practices yet once more.
Respectfully,
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