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>Tonight I got a shock.  In front of the Buckfast colony there were a lot
>of dead bees.  I would guess about 2 good size handfuls of bees.
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Were they workers or drones? If you have take three supers of honey, it
seems you are coming to the end of your season and that's when the poor
old men get dragged out - literally.
--
Tom Speight