super color

[achunter]

does the color of you supers really matter?...i painted them all white last year but i have a color called "kiwi" that im never gonna use so i was thinking about painting my supers in this color, would that be alright?

[iddee]

Think heat....Light colors reflect heat, keeping the hive cooler.  Dark colors absorb heat, keeping the hive warmer.

[Brian D. Bray]

The bees are not critical tenants, they really don't care what color, or combinations thereof, you paint their home.  They just what to know what the return address is.