Dee Lusby writes:
>The following lecture/talk was just given by me ... I am posting it
>here for much discussion and comment, as it relates highly to
>beekeeper induced stress within beehives and other problems.

>Just a few weeks before this meeting, in discussion with Michael
>Housel, of Orlando, Florida, I  received information concerning
>proper positioning of wild feral combs

>Why would colonies want to requeen more then once throughout the
>active beekeeping year? From what we have seen in our colonies, it
>is a comb positioning problem with the frames in backwards.


Let me get this straight, you heard about this idea in August, turned
all the backwards combs around and a month later you say that "combs
in backwards" is the source of most of the problems beekeepers have
been having over the years?

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Peter Borst <[log in to unmask]>