"Maxprop" wrote in message
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"Scotty" w@u wrote in message
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"katy" wrote in message
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Stop it...you, too as in Happy Valentine's Day...I was
just returning
his sentiment...now go play with your atropine and
behive...

Max has one too?

Out behind the house, but the bees all died in the subzero temps recently.

Sub zero temperatures should not have bothered them unless it was a weak
colony to start with or you took their summer honey and neglected to feed
them sugar solution as a substitute. Bees are warm and cluster together in
the hive in a cluster about the size and shape of an (oval) football. The
colder it gets the tighter they cluster to maintain a temperature of about
90 degrees in the middle of the cluster. They rotate the ones on the outside
to give them a chance to come into the warm.
But you also have to keep the hive ventilated so you must not let it get
buried in snow.