I haven’t and I don’t live in Perth so maybe I shouldn’t have answered but here goes…
Bees do much better with decent insulation be it in a “proper” hive made of wood or poly, a tree or in somebody’s house wall. They find it much easier to keep the brood nest between 32 and 35 degrees. Fighting against temperature fluctuations causes the colony much stress.
A nucleus colony is even more susceptible to such vagaries.
Bees will live anywhere including a corflute box but there is a difference between surviving and thriving.
I’m dead against experimenting with living creatures unnecessarily
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