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Late yesterday afternoon Jessi and I headed out with veils, newspaper and smoker to check on our multiple hives. The mission of the day was to get from 5 hives to 3 by combining each deep boxed hive with a shallow swarm hive. To do so, we opened each hive box up and looked for evidence [...] Today my car broke down pulling out of the office parking lot on the way to Beez Neez. You’d think that would be the bad news of my day, but it turned out to be a very good thing. Instead of running out to Snohomish to pick up a bottom board and lid and then [...] About 3.5 weeks out from our swarm (we think) we knew we didn’t have a queen in our hive, and while the girls were raising masses of queen cells there was a lot of uncertainty about what was really going on. So after some debate, a lot of conflicting advice and a queen bee in [...] |
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