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Winter Packing (040)
Think about honey bees overwintering in a tree. There's 4 to 6 inches of insulation, pretty good ventilation, and it's lined with propolis. Now think of our bees living in a box with less than an inch of wood for protection. We pretty much don't think of wintering anymore. There's lots of bees, swarms, we can replace what we lose easily…. well, it was easy, but it's not so much anymore. Varroa changed that.
We can protect them if we want. Insulated covers, insulated wraps, roofing paper, all manner of things we can get, and all require some level of labor to make work.
Expanded styrene boxes…
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