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Re: 2004 Russian Queen update
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Michael Bassett <[log in to unmask]>
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Informed Discussion of Beekeeping Issues and Bee Biology <[log in to unmask]>
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Wed, 28 Apr 2004 12:55:22 -0400
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On Wed, 28 Apr 2004 07:34:38 -0500, Bob Harrison
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>Hello All,
>I received my share of the Russian/Russian queens last Sunday.
>
>
>I released mine after  five days caged due to the introduction problems I
>had last year. I did not have any introduction problems this year and and
>found only one queen dead in a cage when I went to release the queens. I
>have got 64 installed and hopefully laying.

could you give an update on how you found the russians that you used last
year were? like temperment and honey production.  Did you install the new
queens into italian or russian hives?

thanks mike bassett new york (mine are due in a couple of weeks)

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