>> >roof are down tight, some keepers even cover them with plastic. Now, if the
>> >bees are using up the available oxygen, leaving carbon dioxide, which will
>> >rise with the heat created, the hive becomes a death trap.
>
>        If this were the case, we'd also have a lot of dead Eskimos.
>Think of the hive in the winter as a bee igloo.
>
I hardly think this is a good analogy. The Eskimos can get out for a walk
around!!!
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