Open air beehive viability

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Remember a wooden hive has almost zero insulation. So the baseline is just shelter from rain

that is really far from true. The British knowledge about insulation is near zero. Soooory.

And who can nurse bees in the tree.
It is better take down, save the valuable brood and look in spring.

My nationality is irrelavent to assessing my knowledge or reasoning capability.

A wooden langstroth hive made out of hardwood 3/4"  thick dissapates around 4W to 6W per degree  centigrade. The bee cluster for a Langstroh hive  will generate around 20W. Thats a 4C difference - Thats insignificant when the temperature the bees are trying to preseve is  is 34C and the ambient is below zero.  When success is  maintaining a 44C temperature difference the insulation value  of a 3/4" wooden hive (less than 10%) is irrelavent to the distress of the bees. A physical fact.
I am dismayed that some one with your background would not see the bankrupty of mathematical  reasoning of appliying the generality of a population to an individual.  Racism is not only morally wrong but an ignorance of mathematics.
The fact of having in the past of an empire that spanned most of the globe does not give carte blanche to anyone to denigrate my nation without question. Our  patriotism may be practised quitely and without fuss and flag waving  but it does not mean it is not FIERCE!!!!!!!!! after all even the the most placid bee still has a STING! :)