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Perhaps your advice is good for where you live--not indicated
in your message--but it is NOT true for Maryland, USA--w/respect
to "wrapping your hives in tarpaper..."
Jack in Maryland
On Fri, 20 Feb 1998, Norman CotÊ wrote:
> Snow covering the hives have never been a issue. There are air pockets in the
> snow crystals. Plus, the insulation also helps from a far more important
> factor, that being the cold wind. Over the winter make sure you have some
> kind of wind break or wrap your hives with tar paper, leaving the entrance
> open and a way for the air to escape from the top.
>
> Norm
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**John Iannuzzi, Ph.D.
**38 years in apiculture
**12 hives of Italian honeybees
**At Historic Ellicott City, Maryland, 21042, U.S.A. (10 miles west of
Baltimore, Maryland) [9772 Old Annapolis Rd - 410 730 5279]
**"Forsooth there is some good in things evil
For bees extract sweetness from the weed" -- Bard of Avon
**Website: http://www.xmetric.com/honey
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