Thermosolar Hive

[Jim134]

Looks like a solar wax melter to me...

That was my exact reaction. Then I started reading the rest of the posts... you beat me to it... I could see the benefits in the winter but I don't see how it will cook the mites without cooking the bees.

         I wonder how hot get in Arizona or New Mexico. Where  people keep bee hives especially hobbyist.


                      BEE HAPPY Jim 134  :)

[Acebird]

       He was a big believer in having honey extraction rooms / honey supers to 100F or so.

Let me ask someone on another forum what the hot rooms were set at.  I thought they were higher than 100.

[Jim134]

Acebird

     Something to think about Charles Mraz wanted the honey supers and the extraction room at a100F . I do not know if he was using a silver Queen uncapper or not. I do know all the rest of his equipment was Maxant.  Bill Maxant was a very good friend of Charlie Mraz . All they made at that time where tangentially/radial extractors. Most likely Mraz ran 2 radial 60 frame extractors probably ran two.



        BEE HAPPY Jim 134 

[Acebird]

That is the word I am getting from another person, 100 degrees.

[Michael Bush]

> I wonder if anybody has done studies on mortality rate of brood vs. temperature.

I don't have them handy, but yes.  A few degrees off for an hour or so isn't so big of a deal, but very far for very long and you get brain damage.  As far as low temps, you get chalkbrood and lower than that you get chilled dead brood.

[Acebird]

The site says 104-116 for 150 minutes so according to your information they are killing the brood even though they claim not.  This was my first guess.