From: "deelusbybeekeeper" <deelusbybeekeeper@excelonline.com>
Date: Thu, 10 May 2001 09:36:50 -0700
To: <BiologicalBeekeeping@yahoogroups.com>
Subject: Re: Regression Questions

Hi to all on Biological Beekeeping

Peter wrote:

> What is the rate of survival for the 4.9 cell sized bees over winter? This
> winter in Missouri quite a few strong hives were frozen. How do the smaller
> bees handle six weeks of deep freeze in a row?

Reply:

While our bees overwinter fine in the hills above 4,000 ft level in Arizona,
clustering nicely in the winter, this is a question for Erik to answer from
Sweden where he keeps bees at a latitude equivalent to Anchorage Alaska.

How about it Erik!

How did your 49ers do this winter compared to others on bigger comb? How did
they compare come spring?

Dee