Cleansing flights at 25 deg f?

[Aroc]

I guess the good part is the hive is still alive.  It's been very cold here.  Below zero for close to a week.  I went out today as I was going to check on the status of the sugar block I put in in the fall.  The bees moved up to the upper entrance and were actually doing cleansing flights.

Not sure how many actually made it back as there were probably 100 or so on the snow. 

Not sure if anything can or should be done.  I'm assuming this is normal. 

[divemaster1963]

you can pick those ones up off the snow. and warm them up with your breath or put them in a tupper ware bowl with cover in the sun and some if not most will wake up.

john

[mtnb]

Hello! :)

I'm guessing we've had similar weather lately. :) I was out by my hives the other day and it was about 20-25*. I saw one lone, very determined bee fly out and around back of the hive. lol My hives tend to have a few fly at around 29-32* (a few...maybe 5-10 bees) and at 34/35*, many more venture out.
Is your hive wrapped? It's normal to have casualties.

[Dallasbeek]

you can pick those ones up off the snow. and warm them up with your breath or put them in a tupper ware bowl with cover in the sun and some if not most will wake up.

john

John, what heppens when they wake up and grt a strong smell of carbon dioxide they can home in on? 

[Aroc]

Hive is wrapped.  I imagine that has more to do with the activity than anything.  I know there is an argument as to if it is worth it or not.  I've taken advice on this from a few in Montana that wrap on a regular basis.  Assuming they survive the winter I will continue to do so and just accept the losses.