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Bill Truesdell <[log in to unmask]>
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Informed Discussion of Beekeeping Issues and Bee Biology <[log in to unmask]>
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Sat, 13 Sep 2003 06:48:37 -0400
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Bob Harrison wrote:

> Allen explained open feeding as used by the professional beekeeper.
>
> Right before winter sets in is a time when i might open feed.

The discussion has moved from leaving extracted supers and cappings in
the open for bees to clean out (my concern) to open feeding with syrup
as a beekeeping practice (which I have done).

Bob, as a professional, how do you handle extracted supers in the fall,
which, from my observations, is when most of the robbing and neighbor
problems occur if left for the bees to clean in the open?

Bill Truesdell
Bath, Maine

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