Stalker - North Facing
County: Belknap
Bee Race: Northern
Source: Overwintered colony
Queen: 2021 queen raised by colony
Hive Name: Stalker
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Hive details:
- Faces North
- 10 Frame Langstroth
- Stack: Medium,Medium,Medium,Medium, 1.5" feeding shim
- Winterization:
colony quilts + Bee cozy with reflectix covering the top so no snow gets in.
upper entrance : 1/2"x3/8" with a wind block
lower entrance : 1/2 oval - 1" x3/8" - on east side
hive stand base wrapped with Reflectix
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Notes:
- 11/5/23 : All sensors installed (ignore "custom(7)" data before this date)
- 11/11/23 : reduced lower entrance and have it on east side of colony
wrapped base.
- 11/21/2023 : wrapped with colony quilt & cozy at ~ 2pm. Added 3" of insulation above inner cover. Bees were down - could only see a few bees looking down from top.
put a "temp-only" above inner cover - below the insulation. It is on the east side of the hole in the middle of the cover
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November 21, 2023 @ 6am (~17F in apiary)
South side
North side
East side
West side
Live Stream
Sensor location notes:
"South" sensors - frame5, 2" from south side woodenware
"North" sensor - frame 5, 2" from north side woodenware
"East" sensor - frame 8, 2" from east side woodenware
"West" sensor - frame 2, 2" from west side woodenware
frames are counted from left to right when facing the front of the colony
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"Outside" (pink line) is not from a sensor. It data pulled by broodminder from a weather data site
