In California last year (El Nino) by March 1st I had already had 6 swarms
issue from a single hive. I didn't even have a chance to do any swarm
management let alone get strips in. Next time I will pay more attention to
my bees when they are bringing in hoards of pollen in January!
 
The good news was that I was able to capture all these swarms and combine
then into a single colony that produced 2 deeps and 3 mediums of surplus.
 
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> From: (Thomas) (Cornick) <[log in to unmask]>
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: FW: Number of Supers per Hive
> Date: Friday, December 04, 1998 9:29 AM
>
> Actually putting Apistan in on the first warm enough day in March is what
I do
> here in Connecticut as well as feeding 1-1 syrup to get my colonies
booming.
> There is one hell of a flow here from maple and dandylion early on.
>
> Tom in CT