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In a message dated 95-06-22 10:55:20 EDT, you write:
> Re: your second question. In hot weather it is extremely risky to
>close up hives. When they discover they can't get out, they >become exited.
That creates more heat, which gets them more >excited. You can get a
runaway chain
>reaction, which can actually melt down comb.
Too right! I just moved 18 hives from the Piedmont (foothills) of North
Carolina up to the Mountains for sourwood. I didn't have enough moving
screens for the whole load. That was a big mistake! The heaviest three
hives suffocated and melted down. What a mess. I had about 100 pounds of
honey running out of the hive entrances and over everything, and piles and
piles of dead bees. At first I thought I could salvage the combs and put
them on weak hives. Then I realized that the combs had melted and collapsed
like wet tissue paper. From now on I won't move bees unless I have a moving
screen for the top and front of every hive.
Randy Lynn
Blossom Ridge Bee Farm
5402 Ashbey Lane, Summerfield, North Carolina, USA 27358
Phone 910-643-4494, email [log in to unmask]
Sideline beekeeper with 35 hives.
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