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Message: <blockquote data-quote="jos@centalotago" data-source="post: 13588" data-attributes="member: 845"><p>You know it's like riding a bike 😂 I was fortunate to apprentice with some great beekeepers and it's something I've kept an interest in but it's actually been amazing how quickly I got back into the rhythm of the bee's. The guy I brought my hive off had a queenless hive and a dead out colony and I could tell from the activity and behavior at the entrance before I stuck my nose in. Yeah, before anyone roasts me, I know it's winter but we had a warm spell for a week at the end of may here with plus 16 Celsius temps and the guy hadn't opened the hives since early January, was running single deep management with a full honey super and a queen excluder betwixt them 😬 and bayvarol strips left in. Ironically the hive I brought is queen right 😂 so I'll do a split and repopulate his hives and I'm buying a few nucs from a local commercial beekeeper who was nice enough to sell me a box of drawn comb to replace the comb that had the strips embedded in them because they are nasty.</p></blockquote><p></p>

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