> Thus my question. Below what
> ambient temperature would the bees not be able to move stores around?
Depends how ambient ambient is. Recently on a cold bright day with snow on
the ground I took the lid off a double brood chamber colony expecting to see a
tight cluster in the bottom box. Instead I found about 50 or so bees working
in the top box, as surprised to see me as I was them.
While it was close to freezing outside, and the hive has an open mesh floor
with a foot drop beneath it, there must have bees enough solar radiation
heating the box to allow the bees to break cluster and forage within the hive.
Chris
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