"Does that 'guy with bees' still have hives or did he
sell them all to you?"

I understand most of his hives are dead, but he's taken to mentoring
people. Last year at a Santa Maria beekeeping club meeting I was going
through some of my hives with some people, including the wife of a
fertilizer salesman who was just starting out with bees. She told me it
was also her practice to put Apistan strips permanently in her hives and
to scrape them periodically. I asked what her husband thought of such a
blatant disregard for labeling, and she just mumbled something.

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