Dec 27 2020 (-10C) Cluster video IR footage

Not recommend for folks at very cold ( less than-10C) who use top entrances. Opening the lower entrance will cause an increase in air flow through your hive. I only have a lower entrance, so minimum impact. It was -10C when I tested my contraption. I have 12 temperature sensors so I will check later to see what impact I had on the hive “energetics“. So the hack: a cedar window, door jam shim, sharpy to mark the 1“ increments, electric tape, a male/female lightning port extension cord ($14CAD on Amazon). The purpose was to get footage of my winter clusters to go along with the the analysis that I am doing. IR cameras are useless when taking pictures of insulated hives other than looking for heat loss locations. This a single brood hive: The darker surface are the bars from my slatted rack. The orange/dark purple ones are the bottom of the frames. Bee’s thorax seems to be in the 25 to 28C range. Little report on the trial. The hive was clearly disturbed, therefore it was recording much higher temperatures that