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>  What I am envisaging is a new service to beekeepers in UK - we
>deliver our mini-nucs to a farm cold room in say October (?) and collect in
>say March (?) ,   after reliable wintering (assuming the nuc was properly
>prepared by the beekeeper, so no guarantees by the farmer except of
>maintaining the temp).


Good idea, Robin. I would love to see the results. Similar to cellar
wintering of full sized colonies. I bet it would work.

Mike

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