Beekeepers: In the Sept. 2001 American Bee Journal, Steve Taber writes about wintering bees referencing a study published in 1971 by the USDA "The thermology of wintering honey bee colonies". The study compares an insulated hive against a heated hive and an uninsulated check hive. The results may surprise many beekeepers. The publication, he says, is long out of print. Arizona beekeeper Dee Lusby provided a photo-copy of the study to a local beekeeper here in south-central Alaska, Keith Malone. Keith scanned the pages and posted it in 33 separate .jpg files on an internet discussion group. For anyone interested, the files can be accessed at: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Norlandbeekeepers/files/ The files can be downloaded and printed from a word processing program. The print quality isn't the greatest, but is certainly adequate enough to be easily read. Regards, Dick