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Re: Long lived bees
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Charles Linder <[log in to unmask]>
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Sun, 15 May 2016 15:21:14 -0500
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This discussion is making me consider Charlie's point:  that a single round of brood is not enough to produce enough diutinus bees for the winter cluster.  The math needs to work.  I have not yet resolved this question to my satisfaction.




Let me throw out another zip....  2 years ago I bought 100 packages of shake out bees,  after frost.  We caged them 8 days,  then hived them.   80% or so made it thru a rough winter.   They drew out 15-18 frames of wax and filled it with HFCS,  absolutely ZERO brood in any of them.  Not one shread.  And  most survived just fine.......

Charles

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