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Re: Transporting Nucs
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Dave <[log in to unmask]>
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Informed Discussion of Beekeeping Issues and Bee Biology <[log in to unmask]>
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Mon, 12 May 2003 14:39:45 -0400
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On 12 May 2003 at 13:35, Allen Dick wrote:

> Bees are killed -- overheated -- every year in wooden nucs and packages,
> but people are used to that, so it is not news. These nucs work, and work
> well, but, as with everything, there is a learning curve.

   We haven't lost any nucs in wooden boxes in quite a few years.
The load that had styrofoam boxes also had nucs in wooden boxes,
and of about equal strength. None of them were lost. Our "secret" is
copious use of water when it's hot. But that doesn't help with
styrofoam.  Maybe ice....


Dave Green    SC  USA
The Pollination Home Page:  http://pollinator.com

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