--- On Sat, 7/3/10, allen <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>>>I have had bees that have starved because it was simply too cold for
too long to >>>move the cluster across the frames and as a result starved
out within 1" of honey.
>My belief is that there is something
wrong with such bees -- too few, too old, diseased, >or somehow otherwise
compromised -- but the weather gets the blame.
Have any of you northern beekeepers witnessed/observed a situation where bees have moved laterally during very cold weather? I would think this question would be especially pertinent to bar hive operators where the colony is set up laterally instead of vertically. I have moved to the South where we don't have to worry too much about such conditions.
Mike in LA (Lower Alabama)
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