You mention the warmth inside the hive and I've been watching the
temperature recorded by the thermometer placed underneath the hive roof,
above the top bars on my horizontal top bar hive. It drops when the
outside temperature drops and has been as low as 10 or 11 degrees when
the outside temperature is close to zero. Most days there's been at
least a 10 degree difference during the day.
Best wishes
Gilliane
On 26/11/2017 13:54, Paul Honigmann (Redacted sender paul.honigmann for
DMARC) wrote:
Outstanding picture. Admired by entire family here. One said "so bees have eyelashes too!" (referring to the hairs on their eyes.)
I attach a photo made with the FLIR camera Jack borrowed. It shows the heat-glow from a cluster in a Warre hive on, I think, Friday night; ambient temperature was 2C that night. If you look closely round the window you can see warm dots, these are metal screws. I didn't notice those initially because the camera hasn't got many pixels' resolution, so unless you are near the hive it doesn't show that level of detail - which is the opposite of the spectacular photo Ann has circulated. At some point I shall do a blog post on this and the other hive types I FLIR-photographed, but first there are the pub meeting notes to write up 8)
Paul
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Subject: [oxnatbees] Pollen grains on a bees eye. Photo comp winner.
Local Time: 25 November 2017 12:02 PM
UTC Time: 25 November 2017 12:02
From: dmarc-noreply@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
To: oxnatbees@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Came across this fab photo from a 2015 photography competition, Pollen on a bees eye, (it won by the way). Thought you might like to see it.
Ann (smiley face) lol.
