Special Episode – Ventilating Hives vs Condensing Hives, should we be transitioning?
00:00 – 00:23 | Opening: Opening Music – Huey Lewis and the News
00:23 | Welcome and Intro: Welcoming Remarks & Agenda
2:55 – 93:44 | Condensing Hives
Links | Etienne Tardiff – North of 60 Beekeeping YouTube Channel – A simply amazing resource about thermoregulation and other things. Just go there and watch the videos (with a cup of coffee) if you want a real understanding of how bees behave in colder climates as well as thermoregulation
Links | Understanding the condensing hive (Betterbee with Bill Hesbach)
Links | The problem to the solution of winter moisture (Bee Culture)
Links | Ventilating vs. Condensing Winter Colony (Dewey Caron)
Links | Honey bee colonies maintain CO2 and temperature regimes in spite of change in hive ventilation characteristics | Apidologie
Links | Overwintering in North American domesticated honeybees (Apis mellifera) causes mitochondrial reprogramming while enhancing cellular immunity
Links | Honeybee Colony Thermoregulation – Regulatory Mechanisms and Contribution of Individuals in Dependence on Age, Location and Thermal Stress
Links | Wintering Honey Bees (Clarence Collison – Bee Culture)
Links | 2020.10.27 Wintering Bees (Bill Hesbech Youtube video, Middleses County Beekeepers Association)
Links | Temperature Duality: The Heterothermic Mastery of Honey Bees
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