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We raise around 3000 nucs each spring.
Our Italian mongrels have no hesitation with living hand to mouth, filling
a 5-frame nuc with 4-5 frames of brood, despite having almost no honey
reserves. When we then work them into singles, they do the same.
Late in the season, during dearth, I observe them cutting back on brood and
often cannibalizing.
But during spring, as far as I can tell, they do not hold back on
broodrearing when honey reserves are low, so long as enough food is coming
in each day to keep them fed, with scant or nonexistent reserves.
I find this surprising, since one would think that they'd always keep a
reserve.
Randy Oliver
Grass Valley, CA
530 277 4450
ScientificBeekeeping.com
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