"John Burgess" wrote:
>  All the original comb and brood is destroyed, and so this procedure is
not
>  too good if you need early bees, but it is ok in much of the UK where the
>  main flow is later in the year...

John

I would suggest that much of the UK depends very much on OSR and often has
very little later in the year.  To lose the OSR crop would certainly hit us
very badly here in the Midlands.

Peter Edwards
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