You can check if your honeybees are different, and
what they "think" about ventilation.

Make a hive which have ALL sides made from mesh
(screen), also bottom and top. Put inside enough bees
(maybe from two - three colonies), long enough before
the winter.
See how they will propolise all hive.
Leave them for winter if you like.

Our bees (A. m. macedonica) propolised everything but
bottom (no holes on the top).

Regards,


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