Dave Green wrote:

>....Swarmy now here in SC. We are about a week behind, after a week
>of rain, but not too many hives yet to go, with a great forecast for
>the rest of the week...
>
Ditto in the upper piedmont.  A rainy week in the 40's and low 50's put
a stop to splitting.   Even had some splits swarm after being cooped up
for a week with multiple queen cells hatching:  I'm finding the Russians
are very tolerant of other queens (good idea in Siberia, I guess), so
each virgin took her own swarm.  Caught most fortunately.  Plus several
excellent queens I crowded a little on purpose (and then couldn't split
on time due to weather) swarmed.  Oh jpy. the  queens were clipped and I
was cruising the beeyard and I just picked up the old queen and a few
Nasanov fanners and watched them pour in the new hive.  It's great when
it works! At least I'll get some comb drawn!  Let's hope the drought
doesn't return in July and that we get some fair weather until then!

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