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Date: | Wed, 1 Sep 2010 20:47:42 -0400 |
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When my supers come in I put them on dollies in a garage attached to the
extracting room. The bees will cluster on the garage door windows so I open
the door and brush them out, most of the bees fly out when I lift the door.
In 24 hours the bees are out of the boxes so I roll them into the extracting
room. I just redid the extracting room last year, all white paint, and so
far no bee poop.
I was taking off supers today to shorten hives in case we get hurricane
Earl. Normally I use a bee blower but we just got fume boards and Bee Quick
in the shop to sell so I took two with me to try and they worked good. By
the time I got the supers off one the next in line was ready. I went down
the line of hives faster with the two fume boards than I could have with the
bee blower. Tomorrow I will be strapping them all. We have had such a hot
dry summer I did not have to many towers to break down and allot of the
supers I was taking off where empty. It is not going to be much of a honey
year here (southern Maine), dry, hot, humid.
Karen Kimball
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