>> "Any additional warmth will help them move the stores around"
> OK, additional rather than extra. I thought they were synonyms.

I think most people who sleep under a blanket know what I mean.

This whole matter is quite intuitive, at least until some clever people 
argue about it and then some northern newbee gets the notion that wrapping 
is not necessary and proves one more time that it is.

I normally ignore hairsplitting, but seeing as my comments were written in 
the context of advising a relatively inexperienced beekeeper who is likely 
lose big-time if distracted from wrapping in a climate where wrapping can 
mean the difference between survival and just getting by, or a big mess for 
most beekeepers some years, I will only reply that this topic has been 
covered exhaustively in the archives, and that very few successful 
beekeepers go without wrapping or the equivalent in northern climes and that 
those who do are very unusual, and are not going into winter with challenged 
bees.

I know a number of beekeepers far enough north to need good wraps who try 
over and over to get by without.  Sometimes they have a good winter and that 
just sets them up for a coming winter where wraps mean the difference 
between life and death -- or the difference between swarms in the spring and 
big crops, and fighting all year to get back up in numbers. 

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