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I went into the winter with 5 hives, I now have only two.
However, one hive (15 miles south of Seattle, WA) is Extremely strong for
March in the northwest.
I am crediting the queen for this excellent wintering ability - Does that
makes sense?
The queen in question was left behind after a June swarm. What I am
thinking is that This would be a good queen & hive to rebuild from rather
than buying packages again. These are (were?) Carnies so there will
definitely be swarm cells soon.
I haven't tried intentionally breeding a queen for many years because I
figured there wasn't enough drone stock around my hives.
OH BTW - the two surviving hives were 'fed' a medium super of crystallized
honey from 2004. Two others got sugar syrup and the last Non-survivor
starved with plenty of stores left over, I suspect mite 'shrinkage'.
tfl
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