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From: "Steve Noble" <[log in to unmask]>

AFTER you have taken off the honey supers, you get the
> mites knocked down before the winter bees are even hatched.  That way when
> they emerge they haven’t suffered the effects of heavy parasitation.
>
Hi Steve,
    Perhaps just as important, compromised health of the house bees rearing 
those winter bees. Are the food producing glands glands up to the task?

Alden Marshall

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