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beekeeper wrote:
>I checked it again
>today. There are fuzzies, a solid brood pattern, uncapped larva and a Large capped queen cell in the center of one of the
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>Is this unusual or just something I haven't seen before?
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Is this Russian stock? Keeping a queen cell at all times, sometimes
capped and then broken down, is a Russian trait that seems to persist
even in my third generation of mixing Russian, Italian, Buckfast and
who-knows-what bees. Guess in Siberia you don't have time to start from
scratch so you need a cell working just in case...
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