A different vaporiser question

[Swarm]

D.M states bees don't cluster in a poly until it is 0c outside

And that's definitive is it?

 

[jenkinsbrynmair]

D.M states bees don't cluster in a poly until it is 0c outside

Still no good for either vaping or trickling - they need to be going outside on occasion as well.

 

[Eyeman]

There's also the consideration that condensed crystals will stay where they settle until something moves them.

I heard somewhere that the crystals dissolve and the OA solution is absorbed by the mites feet?????

 

[madasafish]

At 5C some bees were flying when I treated yesterday. Iirc LASI are based Southern England where the temperatures rarely fall below 10C..

 

[Finman]

Nanetti has written that trickling works in 18C better than on lower temps.. That in Greece.

When you trickle the hive and bees are in cluster, after disturbing bees fill the whole box.

You can trickle swarms at 30C in the middle of summer.

The main point is that hive does not have brood.
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[Finman]

D.M states bees don't cluster in a poly until it is 0c outside

When out temps were +5C several weeks, my all hives were in cluster. All are poly.

+ 5C is normal temperature in November in my country.
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Bees take care themselves over winter, when you have fed them. You do not need to know their clustering temperature. Weather is what it is.
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Just now we have in Helsinki +3 and
tomorrow +5. Föhn phenomenom from Norway.

 

[Hivemaker.]

Just now we have in Helsinki +3 and
tomorrow +5.

Is there much difference in temperature between Helsinki and where your house is further north?

 

[Finman]

Is there much difference in temperature between Helsinki and where your house is further north?

2 degrees now. Sometimes 10C. Helsinki is windy place at seashore, and that has meaning.

 

[Millet]

2 degrees now. Sometimes 10C. Helsinki is windy place at seashore, and that has meaning.

Why does it have meaning.

 

[bpmurray]

Mine do not seem to either from past observation looking through the open mesh floor.

The picture in my mind is of you lying on your back in the middle of winter, peering up through the OMF. Or is there an alternative way?

 

[Millet]

The picture in my mind is of you lying on your back in the middle of winter, peering up through the OMF. Or is there an alternative way?

With a pair of goggles on to stop the Varroa dropping in my eyes.. , seriously though i can kneel down at the back of the hive and get my head underneath with a little torch.

 

[Erichalfbee]

Video on your mobile phone

 

[Gilberdyke John]

With a pair of goggles on to stop the Varroa dropping in my eyes.. , seriously though i can kneel down at the back of the hive and get my head underneath with a little torch.

Obviously more flexible than I

 

[Millet]

Obviously more flexible than I

It will not last forever that i am sure of.