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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This talk was presented for the Pennsylvania State Beekeepers Conference, November 8th, in State College…
This talk was presented for the Pennsylvania State Beekeepers Conference, November 8th, in State College…
This talk was presented for the Pennsylvania State Beekeepers Conference, November 8th, in State College…