Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!crdgw1!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!ncar!mephisto!udel!rochester!pt.cs.cmu.edu!o.gp.cs.cmu.edu!andrew.cmu.edu!lv08+ From: lv08+@andrew.cmu.edu (Lili Velez) Newsgroups: sci.bio Subject: Re: Bees on vacation Message-ID: Date: 16 Sep 90 21:09:52 GMT Organization: English, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA Lines: 14 I believe that bees in harsh climates survive just the same way. We have a barrel full of bees (It was an unused rainbarrel, closed on the top with one 4" hole in the side. A medium-sized swarm moved in one fine July day a few years ago, and have lived happily ever after) back home in Northern New Jersey, and during the winter, if you peer into the hive hole, you can see a clump of bees in the center of one of the honey- combs, tightly packed together. My father wraps the entire hive in fiberglass insulation and plastic weatherproofing when it gets really cold, but I don't think it's absolutely necessary. Bees lived for ages without us..... Still, they are almost part of my family, the way we talk about them... Lili Velez lv08@andrew.cmu.edu