On Fri, 8 Dec 1995, David Eyre wrote:
 
> >> >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!!!
 
        No, it's not. They'd die in their sleep if there wasn't some kind of
air circulation in the igloo, that is unless they slept in short shifts
or advanced air handling systems...
 
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