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Date: | Mon, 12 Apr 1999 06:46:51 -0800 |
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Greetings all,
Hope all is going well for everyone. Eastern Missouri appears to be the swarm capital of the midwest this year. Is this a sign of something? Of the 12 beekeepers at our meeting last weekend, better than half have had swarms. Even happens to the best of them I guess.
I got into another hive Saturday that I was going to split late this week after my queens arrive on Thursday. This hive was really strong, and I found numerous queen cells again in various stages. I cut all the cells, split the hive, and even split out a 4 frame nuc. Question is, only one has a queen in it. There are two queenless ones. How can I assure a better success of queen acceptance in the queenless hives? I plan on going in Wednesday and destroying queen cells again. By then there should be no eggs left, except in the split with the queen. I realize this wasnt the best way to deal with it, but I didnt want to lose another swarm like I did last week. Thanks folks!
Scott Moser
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