On 11/30/2011 10:12 AM, Peter L Borst wrote:
  However Mike, I always 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...
>    
  Well of course. It's taken for granted that one doesn't use sick brood 
and bees. But you know that there are always a number of colonies in the 
apiary that aren't productive when the others are. Could be queens, 
could be swarming, could be stock. It's just a way to take advantage of 
what you have, putting those resources to the best use. With a little 
patience and persistence, that resource can grow how big......

...reminds me of a game I played with my toddler children...and my 
mother played with us.

/How big is the baby?/

...and we'd all throw our arms in the air as wide as they'd go, and laugh...

/ So Big!!/

Mike


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