Below Zero Weather and they survived

Started by paus, March 24, 2021, 04:34:04 PM

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paus

March 24, 2021, 04:34:04 PM
Yesterday a friend showed me a surviving open hive under a large Walnut tree limb, about 20 feet above ground. I saw them last fall and said "They will never make it but they did". There is a small swarm left and they are working. I looked for dead bees under hive and found none.  In February the temp got down to 1 or 2 degrees below zero.  New respect for our friends, they are tough.

FatherMichael

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March 24, 2021, 05:54:36 PM
That's amazing!
41 And while they yet believed not for joy, and wondered, he said unto them, Have ye here any meat?

42 And they gave him a piece of a broiled fish, and of an honeycomb.

43 And he took it, and did eat before them.

van from Arkansas

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March 25, 2021, 07:02:59 PM
Thanks Paus, good to know info.  I did not realize an open hive could survive such temps.  Tip your hat to those bees for me.

Van
I have been around bees a long time, since birth.  I am a hobbyist so my answers often reflect this fact.  I concentrate on genetics, raise my own queens by wet graft, nicot, with natural or II breeding.  I do not sell queens, I will give queens  for free but no shipping.

Hops Brewster

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March 26, 2021, 10:53:34 AM
There is a lot of energy in honey!  They turned that energy into heat, which helped the colony survive a week of winter in the open.
Winter is coming.

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