>...worried a bit about your plan of using the backwards hives to make
> increase. Now, if it's just queen trouble or slow building stock, no
> matter. But if they had some kind of inapparent infection ...
The other concern is that these colonies may carry inferior drones and
if they are yarded where new queens are mated, can lead to
degradation of the resulting stock. At least that is what we noticed
when we did that.
Climate is a big factor up here. Many have tried such techniques, and
do well one year, but get KOed the next.
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