> > A third question would be: what are the bee losses and how are
these made up?
 > Doing walk away splits with whole deep boxes of bees, brood, and
stores in combs of real honey/pollen.

As I recall, you leave your hive equipment on the stands year-round and
there are quite a few hives without bees standing in the yards at any
given time.  At least there were on both of my visits.  I would imagine
that you catch quite a few swarms that way.  It was January when I was
there and we noticed a swarm in one yard even then.

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