Joe, What a delight to read your original contribution of keeping bees, 
well, up on the moon!  What a uniquely challenging yet exciting 
environment up there near the pole!  (I hear astronauts will soon train in 
the South Pole, experimenting on the potential colonization of the moon)  
Regarding the unusual moisture build-up inside the cellar, it could be the 
bees’ breathing proper that contributes such build up, given your 
relatively air-tight closing up.  One can observe something akin to that 
phenomenon when sugar-feeding.  For example, when you emergency-feed the 
bees with sugar at the tail end of winter, over a newspaper spread atop 
the frames, one can easily observe how the sugar, mixed with the ambient 
heat inside the hive and moisture, becomes a bit more malleable (wet) for 
the bees to consume.  However, given your high success rate in wintering, 
perhaps the frigid air *with* high moisture content appears to be better 
than the bone-dry arctic chill.  But I dare say your nectar flow in Alaska 
could be far better than ours in the south as the arctic plants compete in 
a cut-throat survival gauntlet.

Yoon

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