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Russ Litsinger <[log in to unmask]>
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Wed, 20 Dec 2023 07:56:01 -0600
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> Aside from that factor, I dunno.

Indoor wintering involves relatively constant ventilation rates and
temperature and humidity values. Outdoor wintering obviously does not.

So to my mind this is two separate questions:

1. At what ambient environment do bees best overwinter at? So one can set
ambient environment (i.e. wind speed, temperature and humidity) as a
variable while holding other variables (cluster size, stores volume, cavity
resistance, etc.) constant to consider this point and;

2. At what envelope resistance and/or ventilation exchange rate value(s) do
bees best over winter at?

Otherwise, I am unclear how one can derive an informed opinion about the
relative merits of cavity resistance by comparing indoor versus outdoor
wintering.

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