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Date: | Mon, 3 Jun 1996 12:10:51 -0400 |
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I have just finished pulling off honey and making increase and have some
observations to make on queens. I purchased 50 queens this spring and
the cold wet spring delayed my shipment by 3 weeks. I suspect that 15
percent of the queens have ended up being drone layers. I have thought
about writing a note to the queen supplier but I suppose they were between
a rock and a hard place this spring and simply mailed out some duds.
Still, money is money and queens should be queens.
I requeened all 150 of my hives last summer with queens from 6 different
sources. I suspect that 60 percent were supeceded before fall, and I
lavished drugs and miticides and feed on them. I know that there are
still feral colonies here because of the black drones I am now seeing in
those suposedly Italian hives that were requeened less that a year ago.
I have form some definite opinions on different queen sources, namely at
least 2 to avoid, and a resolution to buy my queens from as close a
geographical source as possible.
Bill Lord
Louisburg, NC, USA
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WILLIAM G LORD
E-Mail : wglord@franklin
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Phone : 9194963344
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