Hi Joe,

> Too late but it is a test.
>

Better you than me to do this test. I hope you see some positive results from this testing. What are you looking to find out with
this test? Just how are you performing this test?

>  The truth is
that I have been way to busy and I thought better to test than wait another
year.
>

Yes, not much progress can be had in a beekeepers year, seems the season is always to short and even shorter still for us in Alaska.

> I will know if late fall/early winter is possible.
>

I would think it might be possible but entering at this time might be stressful for the colony which in itself could affect colony
survival also, but this would be somewhat an unknown factor which would be hard to detect or conclude. If things work out okay that
is all that counts.

>  I will leave them in the bus all year.
>

That's good it will save the problems of many indoor wintering troubles.

>  The only problem I have read about is the potential for bacteria.
>

Which is a potential always anywhere.

> As this is a Nuc thread I will humbly depart.
>

Joe, it is not a problem, I just was not sure if you were talking nucs or something else. If I see myself writing on a different
topic I simply shift subject and carry on. It is good to hear of testing, experiments, trials, and the such being done in the upper
one, there is no university or government agency going to or is doing this for beekeeping in Alaska and it is up to us the humble
beekeepers to do it. It is my hope that the Local Association here will sponsor some experimenting and concerted partnership testing
with local beekeepers to improve wintering and make a push to make wintering bees the norm instead of the odd thing some beekeepers
do. Also, if beekeeping is to ever be a sustainable thing up here beekeepers must learn breeding and queen rearing techniques along
with increase methods. I will emphasize that as many beekeepers as possible must be working, learning, and teaching together to get
to a state of sustainability. You know as well as I do why we need to reach a sustainable state. We as beekeepers up here will need
to do all this work on our own, You, some others, and I are already doing this but many more need to come aboard and help the
advancements that are to come inevitably.

 . ..   Keith Malone, Chugiak, Alaska USA, http://www.cer.org/,
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http://groups.yahoo.com/group/akbeekeepers/ ,
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Norlandbeekeepers/ ,
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ApiarianBreedersGuild/

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