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<blockquote data-quote="James" data-source="post: 6298" data-attributes="member: 212"><p>Hmmm ......</p><p></p><p>I slaved away in my bubble today .... cracking lids and checking feed supplies.</p><p>Some hives we had been too greedy with in the autumn , but with a 1000 litres of syrup on the truck the shortfall was fixable.</p><p></p><p>There were some interesting hives today .... strugglers that are going to take a bit of fixing , if indeed they do get fixed. </p><p>One yard that came out of pollination had quiet a few queenless in the late last summer. My policy with those is to pop in a frame of eggs and persuade them to raise another queen.</p><p>Because they are queenless they don't get a varroa strip, the thought being that there is no brood for the varroa to grow in..... and I can save a few dollars</p><p>Several weeks later quite a few had raised a queen and were brooding up.</p><p>We treated them with apivar as we wintered down.</p><p>Today many were riddled with Varroa.</p><p></p><p>Tricky things those varroa.</p><p>We seem to be fighting battles on multiple fronts these days.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="James, post: 6298, member: 212"] Hmmm ...... I slaved away in my bubble today .... cracking lids and checking feed supplies. Some hives we had been too greedy with in the autumn , but with a 1000 litres of syrup on the truck the shortfall was fixable. There were some interesting hives today .... strugglers that are going to take a bit of fixing , if indeed they do get fixed. One yard that came out of pollination had quiet a few queenless in the late last summer. My policy with those is to pop in a frame of eggs and persuade them to raise another queen. Because they are queenless they don't get a varroa strip, the thought being that there is no brood for the varroa to grow in..... and I can save a few dollars Several weeks later quite a few had raised a queen and were brooding up. We treated them with apivar as we wintered down. Today many were riddled with Varroa. Tricky things those varroa. We seem to be fighting battles on multiple fronts these days. [/QUOTE]
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