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In a message dated 26/06/2008 18:08:42 GMT Standard Time,
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After all it is a new problem ,isn't it??????
On 3 occasions over the last decade or so, the most recent being about 3
years ago, I have found hives that had on the last inspection been very
prosperous, having yielded an above-average honey crop, being reduced in the most
extreme case to 4 workers and a queen; the next worst about a dozen and a queen
and the third, and most recent, maybe a hundred or so. In that case I
re-located the queen to a nearby hive that had need of one and she did well there
until replaced the next season. Although it was the wasp season there was no
sign of robbing in any of these hives which were in separate apiaries.
In each of these hives I had delayed treating for Varroa (although knowing
that they were heavily infested) because I prefer to take my honey crop later
than most people do in order to enable the bees to take down sufficient stores
and pack around the diminishing brood nest to see them through the winter.
Chris
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