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Re: Winter Bees
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Bill Hesbach <[log in to unmask]>
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Informed Discussion of Beekeeping Issues and Bee Biology <[log in to unmask]>
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Wed, 13 Dec 2017 15:55:54 -0500
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Charlie, I was thinking along the same lines only not so much due to hypoxia but with cleaning flights. There have been a few references that bees in winter storage have no brood, and I presume no indoor flight time. I read one study that linked flight to both JH change and mandibular gland stimulation. So maybe just a simple cleansing flight stimulates a little patch of brood. 

Bill Hesbach
Northeast USA 

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