Honey Bee Clustering

An interesting article came to me this morning about someone else noticing honey bee clustering.  As most of you know, this is hard work for the bees and they use this method to keep warm.  

My first installed hive, in a class, froze to death in a conventional hive.  Hence, my enthusiasm for the stationary horizontal hive invented by Fyodor Lazutin.  He provides the plans in his book Keeping Bees With A Smile.  I have to build this hive myself but, it's worth it.  The walls are 4" thick and insulate the bees magnificently.  

Honey Bee Clustering

That really is an excellent book. Here's a link to the book review on permies.

Mike Barkley wrote:That really is an excellent book. Here's a link to the book review on permies.

Thank you for including that book.  Fyodor Lazutin died back in 2015 and this book was written in 2020.  I wasn't comfortable including it since I am only familiar with the original print.