GOODBYE QUEEN
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 20 เม.ย. 2024
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Pretty bloom, I see a kitty.😁
Same here with the privet!! Glad you guys are getting a great bloom too!! You are too kind with the shout out..Wow, humbled. I think you did the right thing with that queen. Allow the new one to get moving sooner rather than later. Definitely behind and what Dr. Amari said the other night, getting that new genetic platform in helps them shake what they got going on.
Yeah - new genetic platform!
I’m glad you went over the Queen timeline in your video. Then if I catch a swarm - newspaper thing to combine - decisions, decisions, decisions. In turn - many options.
Thanks Mike!!
It looks like she has been slowing down for some reason. It's hard to say what may have happened. At this point in the season it would have been nice if you had an already good laying queen for them, but we do what we have to do. Hopfully you caught it in time to get the brood built back up. Thanks for the kind words.
Yeah - hopefully. This wasn’t the queen they had last year either. They had a small black queen. This queen is big but seems real old and having issues. She looks like she’s been around for a while. I had a bunch of cast off swarms move in and they were fighting one another last year. They fought the bees in the established hives as well. Who knows - this queen might have been from one of those cast offs that moved in. Each group was real small and flew in right in back of one another when I was outside.
There is always a lesson and a surprise around the corner. Thanks Joey!