In a message dated 09/11/2008 01:08:29 GMT Standard Time, [log in to unmask]
writes:
smaller bees will be mistaken for Africanized Bees, which is utter nonsense
I have a small apiary on Portland (UK). I noticed that in 2 of the 3 hives
the bees were of different sizes whereas in the third they were uniformly
sized. The 2 hives were using comb of their own devising (as described in an
earlier mail) but the third was on foundation-based comb. The 2 hives seemed to
be 'doing' better than the third. On the other hand it was in those 2 hives
that (in September) I saw my first varroa mites of the year in my own hives.
Chris
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