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George W Imirie <[log in to unmask]>
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Sun, 19 Jul 1998 22:29:11 EDT
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Alan:  This is 5 days late, but I just returned from the week long EAS
meeting.. This is mid July, and putting a new queen in a queenless colony
would be very foolish and probably fail to survive the winter.
Unite the two, by putting the queenrite hive on a single sheet of newspaper on
top of the queenless colony.
Since both of these were swarms, late in the season, now a dearth, you must
feed 1:1 sugar syrup continuously through about September and the 2:1 sugar
syrup to do two things: provide winter food and encourage queen egg laying to
get young winter bees.  Don't overlook killing BOTH mites before winter:
Menthol treatment in August to kill the Tracheal mite, and Apistan strips in
September to kill the Varroa Mite.
I don't know your location so I am guessing at these dates.  Ask someone local
or write back to me.
                                                                George Imirie - 65 years of Maryland beekeeping

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