We check every year for colonies in our breeding area and find no  bees
on our bate stations but after the Reta storm surge
we will not have to as a 10' to 12' wall of water will eradicate just
about all colonies in the area. Any colonies that swarm
from our colonies do not survive as the resources are slim to none even
managed colonies that are fed. have a very hard time. We bring back
all the drone colonies every year as we need to change the lines for
mating purposes. We have no AHB in our area yet and I hope
Reta took care of the colonies in Lake Charles area.

Harper's Honey Farm
Charlie
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Mike Stoops wrote:

>
>  By the way, hello there Charlie.
>How are you going to control your queen breeding to
>preclude AFB influence?
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