Very damp hive

[Finman]

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South tip of England is latitude 50 degree. Winnibeg Canada has the same.
Sometimes Winnibeg has -40C.

 

[victor meldrew]

Up in my corner of the country we have had no snow and I have scrapped the car once this winter. 5 miles away it is totally different again. Variations are huge both locally and nationally in the UK.

If you scrap your car when there,s no snow around I should stay indors when the snow arrives!
VM

 

[user 6228]

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South tip of England is latitude 50 degree. Winnibeg Canada has the same.
Sometimes Winnibeg has -40C.

49° 57' 30" N to 58° 40′ 21″ N

for just main island if we include Channel islands and Shetland islands

49° 11′ to 60° 53′

which is further north than Churchill Manitoba famous for its Polar Bears
and further north than Helsinki

 

[Into the lions den]

So, asking from genuine curiosity rather than need, in your experience for the British climate, does closed crownboard, solid floor and reduced entrance provide enough air change to reliably keep condensation within tolerable levels? Or does it need an exposed rather than a sheltered site if its closed down as tight as that? Or is that too tightly closed up?

And since no one has addressed it, can I repeat my question as to what should be done about mould on frames?

We do not operate with reduced entrances, and have to confess I did not think of that, for the following reasons. If your entrance is only 3/8" deep, as all ours are, there are no mouse issues, and the only time you might consider reducing an entrance is to prevent robbing.

APART from disease thoughts (relevant in our area right now) the loss of the weak is generally more a natural cull than a big loss. We may live in a blessed area, but robbing is rarely a big issue here. It does happen, to queenless or drone layers mostly, but is not the norm. It will be several years since we did any entrance reducing.

Having said that I have seen entrances shut down to almost a single bee way in other peoples bees, although it was usually just a way to protect a tiny colony from both the activities of robbers (bees wasps and bumbles) and to keep the air exchanging down.

Mouldy frames? How mouldy? Is it the pollen gone mouldy or is it the brown comb? It can be some dysentry that moulds. Without having a sure idea then it is hard to say. As a GENERAL rule, in the absence of dysentry or disease or extreme age of comb, then the bees will do an excellent job of tidying it up themselves during the season.

 

[Nic Rhodes]

If you scrap your car when there,s no snow around I should stay indors when the snow arrives!
VM

Err, do you drive with ice on your car windscreen?

 

[victor meldrew]

Err, do you drive with ice on your car windscreen?

Obviously too subtle for you ?
I scrape my car

 

[Nic Rhodes]

Obviously too subtle for you ?
I scrape my car

Probably yes

 

[Hombre]

Sad to say though Victor, but sometimes Finman's English skills do put others into the shade. Not always the spelling either. We had something on the forum the other day, but not in this thread I might add, which was best described as a random collection of words.

A sentence that just made no sense at all. It had probably been looked up on Gobbldygook . . .

Someone did mention the Finish influence at the time. We haven't heard of that famous vain space for a year or two. Or should that be Vane (Fin) space?

 

[itma]

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South tip of England is latitude 50 degree. Winnibeg Canada has the same.
Sometimes Winnibeg has -40C.

True but not the whole story ... which is why we don't get -40C here.
Well, not since the last Ice Age, when Neanderthals lived in Europe - not an insult, I'm talking tens of thousands of years ago...

 

[Finman]

Sad to say though Victor, but sometimes Finman's English skills do put others into the shade. Not always the spelling either. We had something on the forum the other day, but not in this thread I might add, which was best described as a random collection of words.

A sentence that just made no sense at all. It had probably been looked up on Gobbldygook . . .

Someone did mention the Finish influence at the time. We haven't heard of that famous vain space for a year or two. Or should that be Vane (Fin) space?

Hah hah and hah

Vain spaces. What about your excluders in winter and taken off in Spring. Hah ha hah. And matchsticks to lift inner cover to keep hive warm and dry.
hah hah hah. I am doing a book "English Beekeeping Jokes" .

 

[Poly Hive]

Trouble is they dinna realise who the joke is on.

PH

 

[PBee]

Its a chicken and egg situation........
Insulation + Ventilation = Confusion .......end result Hyperventilation!!!!
It has helped the sales of Kingspan though.

 

[Finman]

Its a chicken and egg situation........
Insulation + Ventilation = Confusion .......end result Hyperventilation!!!!
It has helped the sales of Kingspan though.

Sure. And more severe is coming. Sky is falling down.


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Before sleep this .

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2KZjnFZvCNc&feature=player_embedded#

 

[PBee]

No sleep to-night