I went out the other day and opened 12 hives (wrapped in four packs as
mentioned earlier)
Eleven were beautiful -- large fairly loose quiet clusters. One was dead
-- had dwindled to nothing -- must have been queenless in the fall.
I was a little worried, because we found some acarine in the fall, but so
far so good.
Weather has been very mild until today (minus 20 C).
More later.
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W. Allen Dick, Beekeeper VE6CFK
Rural Route One, Swalwell, Alberta Canada T0M 1Y0
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Web home page: http://www.cuug.ab.ca:8001/~dicka
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