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Date: | Mon, 30 Apr 2012 12:06:36 -0400 |
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>For sure, if you know how to drive the forklift YOU should be fine ...
Now, there is the real danger.
>about the split ... do not really understand the need for AN.
>Why not making the split strong enough to stand the return of the forager
>to their old location?
I've done that at this time of year and not been pleased with the results.
I've done it too many times to think it is just a fluke, either. It is a bad
idea here in spring. It seems that the timing of the pollen flows and their
importance is such that loss of field bees at a critical time (now) sets a split
up for underperformance compared to methods which do not lose the
field bees.
> and use AN only for the queen insert?
Well, the splits would have been somked and moved, but then it is time
to add a queen to the ones that have none. They will be marked.
On setting them down in their summer location, I intend to gas them all
so that
A.) the field bees stay and
B.) that the queens are accepted by immediate direct release.
>Is it a mated queen? IF yes, and only half - mile distance I wouldn't risk
>and go for the old insert method of your choice.
How does the half-mile affect the decision? They drift back up to several
miles sometimes. Hard to predict.
I have introduced mated queens by many methods and all the good ones
for spring intros are slow and unreliable.
I was hoping to get it all done with one quick process and come back in
a week to 100% acceptance instead of coming back to find some stupid
queens running around inside the cage even though the candy is gone,
some still blocked by candy and some disappeared.
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