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Ventilation Nation
Ask ten beekeepers how to ventilate the hive in winter, get one answer. Something’s not right. Does adding ventilation holes at the top...
Peter Somers
Dec 1, 2016


Insulation Pontification
Some wrap their hives for winter, some don’t. Bees can survive either way, but there may be a difference in honey consumed, brood reared...
Peter Somers
Nov 8, 2016


Win in Winter
Not surprisingly, the bees that carry the colony to spring are “winter” bees. Their increased longevity is the result of changes in their...
Peter Somers
Sep 16, 2016


Effect of Outside Temperature on Honey Consumption
Some of my hives got a late start last season, and some of them I started late. Despite fall feeding, many were a little light going into...
Peter Somers
Dec 25, 2015
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