From: "deelusbybeekeeper" <deelusbybeekeeper@excelonline.com>
Date: Mon, 19 Feb 2001 19:33:51 -0800
To: <BiologicalBeekeeping@yahoogroups.com>
Subject: Re: Brood temperature

Chris wrote:

> Dee, have you put a thermometer into a brood nest recently?

Reply:

No, not in several years now. Haven't seen any need to. You got one you want
to bring over and try out? You can bring external or internal types.

Used to watch temperature a lot for monthly mean temps for outside, and
internally inside for both broodnest and other areas of the colony, i.e.
honey supers, pollen areas, top broodnest, bottom broodnest, and various
placements on frames throughout the whole brood area. But don't do that
anymore. Found a paper written on the subject that matched pretty good what
we were seeing and no one else seemed interested much.

Also, used to follow the position of queen cells of various subcastes when
checking temps, to see if the queen layed LIFO or FIFO or could control the
laying of eggs dependent by subcaste to specific parts of the brood frame,
similar to picking spawning sites as some fish do. Was interesting, but
mostly to me. Ended up with a hybridization/breeding chart for open-mating
with the temp means, and the queen cell positioning by temp, by subcaste
mostly in the broodnest controlled by temp, I just pretty much use myself,
when raising queens and matching subcastes.It's no big deal though, just
something I do. Just a little querk sort of.

Dee