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<blockquote data-quote="James" data-source="post: 6410" data-attributes="member: 212"><p>A few years ago when we had some massive winter losses, we regroupoed and rebuilt,splitting evrything that was splittable, and some.</p><p>We raise our own queens,so in a sense the cell raisers were the survivors.</p><p>I use the same yard for cell builders every year. They get no special treatement .... except that I leave a lot more honey on them for the winter.</p><p> I just graft from what ever out of the yard of 24 has nice looking larva on the day I am looking.</p><p></p><p>I've spent this last lockdown feeding bees and taking stock of what we have this year.</p><p>Two yards of 48 hives have a visible varroa issue. Another two yards have 50% dead ....one yard we forgot to treat until we found it wintering down, and the other came out of pollnation totally thrashed and never really stood a chance.</p><p>The balance of the other 20 or so yards are up and down, but mostly weaker than normal,with many queens only just starting to lay.</p><p></p><p>It's always a mental challenge at this time of year ..... wondering how the heck a hive with one and a half frames of brood will make a crop gatherer of 100,000 workers. .</p><p>But experience says that with dilgence and syrup, and the odd wasrm day, a miracle will unfold.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="James, post: 6410, member: 212"] A few years ago when we had some massive winter losses, we regroupoed and rebuilt,splitting evrything that was splittable, and some. We raise our own queens,so in a sense the cell raisers were the survivors. I use the same yard for cell builders every year. They get no special treatement .... except that I leave a lot more honey on them for the winter. I just graft from what ever out of the yard of 24 has nice looking larva on the day I am looking. I've spent this last lockdown feeding bees and taking stock of what we have this year. Two yards of 48 hives have a visible varroa issue. Another two yards have 50% dead ....one yard we forgot to treat until we found it wintering down, and the other came out of pollnation totally thrashed and never really stood a chance. The balance of the other 20 or so yards are up and down, but mostly weaker than normal,with many queens only just starting to lay. It's always a mental challenge at this time of year ..... wondering how the heck a hive with one and a half frames of brood will make a crop gatherer of 100,000 workers. . But experience says that with dilgence and syrup, and the odd wasrm day, a miracle will unfold. [/QUOTE]
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