Thanks for the details, Paul.

The location of the mold clarifies where the condensation occurs.

Your thick inners and tele covers sound like a great idea!

And thanks so much for your observation on the open-air cluster in cold
weather, since it refutes the hypothesis that colonies can't survive with
too much winter ventilation (although I'd like to see more replicates).

As Paul notes, " The most obvious thing about these places is that their
climates have literally nothing in common."

The above is what makes a biologist want to attempt to tease out the
physics involved, so as to come up with guidelines that can be
appropriately applied respective to the expected climatic conditions.


-- 
Randy Oliver
Grass Valley, CA
www.ScientificBeekeeping.com

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