tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1842136564899097734.post4961724449823032998..comments2023-12-15T02:04:08.213-08:00Comments on meat: Do green bee hives get warmer than white? Bruce Kinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10995706761794063165noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1842136564899097734.post-67864065509283080682013-04-11T12:07:00.716-07:002013-04-11T12:07:00.716-07:00partly sunny today; no temperature difference. partly sunny today; no temperature difference. Bruce Kinghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10995706761794063165noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1842136564899097734.post-13877379256415261202013-04-09T21:18:27.803-07:002013-04-09T21:18:27.803-07:00Partly sunny today. No temperature difference.Partly sunny today. No temperature difference.Bruce Kinghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10995706761794063165noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1842136564899097734.post-84338552667164036752013-04-08T10:59:03.799-07:002013-04-08T10:59:03.799-07:00No temperature difference today; cloudy and windyNo temperature difference today; cloudy and windyBruce Kinghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10995706761794063165noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1842136564899097734.post-62013672655912561922013-04-07T08:19:44.911-07:002013-04-07T08:19:44.911-07:00I painted all my hives a dark color for this reaso...I painted all my hives a dark color for this reason.Jeffhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05477013963212151740noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1842136564899097734.post-27614420245050066362013-04-06T22:41:00.585-07:002013-04-06T22:41:00.585-07:00No reading today; the wind blew off one of the hiv...No reading today; the wind blew off one of the hive covers (the white hive, not that it matters). I'll do readings the rest of this week. and put a brick on the hive top. Bruce Kinghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10995706761794063165noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1842136564899097734.post-38703441536806959002013-04-05T18:14:05.021-07:002013-04-05T18:14:05.021-07:00I will be interested to see how the test works out...I will be interested to see how the test works out, either way you will find that on sunny days in the winter the green hive will become active while the white hive will not.<br />Similar but not quite the same is hives that get the sun earlier in the day will become more active quicker than hives that get the sun later in the day.<br />A beekeeper wrote an article about winter clusters, he used a thermal camera,same as the fire department uses and took photos during the winter, they showed that the interior of the hive stayed at ambient and only the cluster was warmed, they do not expend energy to heat the empty parts of the hiveDavehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16160243952968263390noreply@blogger.com