March 16, 2003, Rick Green wrote:
>In the upstate region of New York State near Saratoga where I keep my
>bees,... I have stopped wrapping because of experiments I have done in the
>past so I was concerned this year because of the particularly cold
>winter...<
Today, April 17, 2003, Rick writes:
>Just visited 100 hives, 18 or so dead ones, made 40 splits, great strength
>despite the cold Northeastern winter we just had, some have attributed it
>to the early application of medication,placed in earlt August, and all had
>a third deep super and many were in it fully having exhausted the
>bottom...<

1. Rick, could you please explain the idea of *not wrapping* in an area
   that reaches easily -10/-15 dF for several days in winter?
   Earlier you also reported that you worried because you had snow
   to the knees...   Could you be kind enough and explain the kinds of
experiments you have done in the past (good and bad)? This is a puzzle
   for me!!!
2. Medication...early August...What kind of medication???
   At that time, there is still plenty of brood and there is a
   goldenrod flow coming last week(s) of August and as long as 1st
   half of September...agreed; so, that crop had to remain in the
   hives then, right???
   Now you find the bees in the third...it means they consume a lot
   more than if wrapped? Do you agree?

3. Those who said that cold does not kill the bees...i suppose here
   is the proof...or?

   Thanks.
   Vital Gaudreau
   Sainte-Therese, Quebec, Canada

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