>The NPR website has a full transcript of Friday's show.
>http://www.npr.org/2010/12/24/132311770/Bee-Bonanza-From-Hive-Politics-To-Beekeeping

Further to a previous discussion about snugness being important, I notice that Tom says:

"It's usually a cavity in a hollow tree, though it can be a space in a wall of a building. But the key thing is that it has to be roomy enough to store the 50 pounds of honey they need for their winter feeding fuel, and it also has to be snug. It can't be drafty, otherwise the cold air blowing through there will make the heating problem just very, very - so costly for the bees that they would burn through their honey supply".

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