[Keith Seymore]

Originally Posted by fyrffytr1

Keith, I never knew bees hibernated. How long were they under wraps?

Originally Posted by Sirrotica

They actually don't hibernate, they eat the honey during the winter, and flutter their wings to raise their body temp, and circulate air inside of the hive for warmth. They're kinda self contained until the ambient temp warms up.

Agree - not hibernating, they are in there in a ball taking turns keeping the queen at 90 some odd degrees.

I hemmed and hawed and ended up not doing anything to the hives this winter for the most part. We had about one week of really bitter sub zero temps and I wrapped them for that brief time period, and then pulled the moving blankets once temps returned to normal.

We had unseasonably warm weather in February and March and that's when we starting thinking we were going to make it for our first time ever.

K