What i should have asked, what is your warm side.
Heh.. heh... assuming you are asking about bees an'
not I, personly.
:chuckles:
Not mine Mikey... the bees.
Not a NH/SH thing so location matters not, local azimith inclusive.
My explain?
When you look at a BC in Plan view the brood nest is not truly conical
as the bees morph the shape towards tbe warmer part of the BC.
So where you see frames at #6, 7, 8, 9 holding brood there is your "warm side".
Conversely for #3, 2, 1 where that is the "warm side".
There is also a clue on how ventilation is working in that colony when looking
at the other 'plane' of the brood nest. Where the shape centres away from the
entrance, favouring the opposite wall, it is highly likely your ventilation is faulty
in not providing warmer air nearer to the entrance.
Problem with "warm" and "less warm" positions is you need the experience first
- with your bees in their locale - and secondly you have to *look* for it in how
frames develop. It is not just "toss a few frames in and shut the ventilated lid"
as many would have it.
My boxes today (long established) all run 1 X 64mm penetrations which bees
do use in setting ventilation controls. Anytime I shift from that model - as I h
have had to do in building my Long Langs - I get trouble, as has recently
happened in one Long Lang requiring a rethink on the adaptation of ventilation
penetrations for that design of those hive bodys.
Keeps one interested :-)))
Bill