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Re: Quick Requeening
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Harry Goudie <[log in to unmask]>
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Thu, 19 Nov 1998 20:36:28 -0000
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Harry Goudie,
Lochluichart, Scotland.
Knitwear Page: http://freespace.virgin.net/luichart.woollens/
-----Original Message-----
From: Allen Dick <[log in to unmask]>
To: [log in to unmask] <[log in to unmask]>
Date: 19 November 1998 12:32
Subject: Quick Requeening
 
 
>Okay.  How about this idea?
>
>Requeening is one of the toughest jobs in beekeeping and often invoves an
>interruption in brood rearing plus a lot of work for the beekeeper.
>Sometime it does not work and results in queenlessness.
>
>Why not do it in the winter when little, if any brood, is being reared?
 
 
Rather than risk a queen why not try dropping another bee into the cluster
and see how it is treated first?

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