Welcome, Guest

Author Topic: for those who use screened bottomed migratory pallets and keep bees in  (Read 1113 times)

Offline adamant

  • House Bee
  • **
  • Posts: 345
  • Gender: Male
cold regions, how do u cover the screen for the winter months?

Offline Jim134

  • Galactic Bee
  • ******
  • Posts: 3046
  • Gender: Male
    • Franklin County Beekeepers Association
Re: for those who use screened bottomed migratory pallets and keep bees in
« Reply #1 on: November 22, 2012, 08:55:54 am »
cold regions, how do u cover the screen for the winter months?


 Screen open all year long in Athol MA.


              BEE HAPPY Jim 134 :)

"Tell me and I'll forget,show me and I may  remember,involve me and I'll understand"
        Chinese Proverb

"The farmer is the only man in our economy who buys everything at retail, sells everything at wholesale, and pays the freight both ways."
 John F. Kennedy
Franklin County Beekeepers Association MA. http://www.franklinmabeekeepers.org/

Offline edward

  • Queen Bee
  • ****
  • Posts: 1203
  • Gender: Male
Re: for those who use screened bottomed migratory pallets and keep bees in
« Reply #2 on: November 22, 2012, 10:28:57 am »
Open in the winter to ventilate damp and moisture

Closed under spring build up , then open to dry honey harvest.

mvh edward  :-P

 

anything