Thermal sensing probes

[Lt.Col.Vortex]

Does anyone know of a good temperature probe? Preferably wireless. I've taken on the task of bee keeping this year (and hopefully many successful years to come) and right now my biggest weakness is information. I want to put a thermal probe in each of my 5 hives to see if I need to add more ventilation ports, and I just want to know whats going on inside my hives. Right now I have a very crude/cheap, wireless thermometer that displays its readings back to a receiver in my house. But its too big to fit in my hives and I only have one. The thermometer doesn't need to read any hire than 200F, but I would like it to be accurate. I plan on mounting the probe to the queen excluder to get an average reading, so the smaller the probe the better.

One of my queens (marked with a red dot).

Some early comb. Its white because we've been feeding them sugar water, turns out that was not a good idea because the hive split (conditions where too good so the queen split the hive). We caught the swarm though

One of my early hives (old picture). A porch/landing pad combo I designed and built, a hive body and one super (silver line between the two is the queen excluder). The top smaller box is the feeder. And then there is the roof, the bee design cut out is for ventilation.

Queen cxcluder. Its just thin wire grating that prevents the queen form gaining access to the upper levels.

 

[Phydeaux]

I think you my need to run a power cord/power supply to the unit, but it looks like you can put 8 temp sensors on it and it will send the signal wireless to your computer.

http://www.omega.com/pptst/OM-WLS-TEMP.html

Ric