Fairview College in Alberta did some experiments with overwintering 6 frame
nucs with success. Seemingly the infested bees and most of the parasites get
left with the parent colony. There is a beekeeper in Fairview that
overwinters only nucs, around 4,000 l think.
Peter Keating

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From: "Michael Palmer" >
> When Acarapis was devastating out colonies, Webster found that his over
> wintered nucs wintered better than the parent colonies. It seemed that it
> was something about the nature of these small colonies.

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