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Mike Stoops <[log in to unmask]>
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Informed Discussion of Beekeeping Issues and Bee Biology <[log in to unmask]>
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Michael Palmer <[log in to unmask]> wrote: These colonies that need feed at the end of the season ..... provide bees and brood for the next seasons' splits. 

>   One always splits/divides from the strongest to keep strong healthy bees and absorbs the weak and gets rid of them letting them go.


I think the point being made here is that the colony worker resources are used to make the splits but each split is headed up with a new queen taken from the genetics of the stronger colonies.

Mike in LA

 		
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