randy oliver
> One reason that I ask is that when I speak with beekeepers in cold
> winter
> climates, that I sometimes hear that breaking the propolis seal under
> the
> lid during winter will result in the death of the colony. This seems
> at
> odds with providing top ventilation.
This was the *standard* comment for a long time in Finland.
Then we got varroa and now almost everyone is treating with oxalic
tricling early winter and breaking the propolis seal at the process.
Hives survive :)
Ari Seppälä
Finland
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