Bill is right. This subject comes up about every winter and is in the archives. What I find amusing is
some of you folks in the *south* telling beekeepers in the *north* they don’t need to wrap.

For those of you who like reading studies, a paper in 1971 from the USDA came out titled “The
Thermology of Wintering Honey Bee Colonies”. It can be read on some beeekeping sites. Here’s
one:

http://www.beesource.com/pov/usda/thermology/techbulletin1429.htm

>“........over-wintering in alaska....does not recommend wrapping....”

Most people in Alaska who do overwinter or attempt to do wrap their hives.

Regards,
Dick Allen

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