I hear you on the attached bottoms on nucs. I have a bunch that way, but moving forward, I am using bottoms and boxes that just stack. Way more flexible that way.
Hi from southern New Zealand 👋😃 we have the opposite problem 😂 Im worried about my colonies overheating 🥵 hitting 30 Celsius plus now (86 degrees F) and summer has arrived in central Otago with a vengeance, it's not normally 30+ until January 😅 three weeks ago we had snow here.
I wrap my Lazutin hives and put a thermal break under them. I figure a bee hive in winter is a lot like an ice shanty. Which insulation on the floor makes a huge difference. Like out hunting your feet stay warmer not making contact with frozen ground or hunting blind floor.
There was a UA-cam creater that said that you have to be careful that the humidity from the bottom colony doesnt overpower the smaller colony on top, thats the only reason i didnt do that myself (nuc on a dbl screen board on top of another colony) How much R-value do those wraps give? I thought the water carrier bees are the oldest of all the bees?
Put a piece of plywood in front of the hive so the sun doesn’t shine into the entrance. Bees will not be bothered by the light and will not fly out and die.
I hear you on the attached bottoms on nucs. I have a bunch that way, but moving forward, I am using bottoms and boxes that just stack. Way more flexible that way.
I hope you had a marvelous Thanksgiving!
It was indeed thank you,
Hi from southern New Zealand 👋😃 we have the opposite problem 😂 Im worried about my colonies overheating 🥵 hitting 30 Celsius plus now (86 degrees F) and summer has arrived in central Otago with a vengeance, it's not normally 30+ until January 😅 three weeks ago we had snow here.
I wrap my Lazutin hives and put a thermal break under them. I figure a bee hive in winter is a lot like an ice shanty. Which insulation on the floor makes a huge difference. Like out hunting your feet stay warmer not making contact with frozen ground or hunting blind floor.
think its more about insulation on the top, to create and hold a heat bubble.
There was a UA-cam creater that said that you have to be careful that the humidity from the bottom colony doesnt overpower the smaller colony on top, thats the only reason i didnt do that myself (nuc on a dbl screen board on top of another colony) How much R-value do those wraps give?
I thought the water carrier bees are the oldest of all the bees?
Put a piece of plywood in front of the hive so the sun doesn’t shine into the entrance. Bees will not be bothered by the light and will not fly out and die.