> I am not convinced that electronic monitoring is particularly useful and the only electronics I really want around my beeyard is occasionally a camera.

Thems are fightin' words for a guy working in high tech, :-) I think that when it comes to temperature sensors the information provided is fairly accurate and representative of what's going on inside the hive. After all, what is a modern digital camera but a different energy (wavelength) sensor?

I was more expected a graph like below, taken from the BeeCounted.org site (companion to Broodminder where all the data is available for free). You can clearly see the temperature start to oscillate when the colony goes queen-less followed by the temperature closely tracking the ambient temperature outside. Not the rock solid, steady 95 degree line in both chambers that my sensors are recording.

At today's bee club meeting I was advised to give a week or two to see what happens. I'll see if I can cancel that emergency queen order.

Przemek

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