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Offline Jen

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Gettin 3 hives ready for new queens
« on: April 24, 2014, 03:41:52 pm »
It's raining and very windy, can't get into my hives to de-queen them until tonight. I guess I'll have to bring them, one at a time, into the warm garage tonight so I can find the queens and any queen/swarm cells.

Don't yell at me for not doing this before the arrival of the new queens. Some of the instructions I read said don't prepare your hives until the new queens arrive  ;) 8)

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Re: Gettin 3 hives ready for new queens
« Reply #1 on: April 24, 2014, 04:07:33 pm »
LOL  apparently there isn't a need yell......much

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Re: Gettin 3 hives ready for new queens
« Reply #2 on: April 24, 2014, 04:13:25 pm »
Thank you Barry  ;)
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Re: Gettin 3 hives ready for new queens
« Reply #3 on: April 24, 2014, 04:41:40 pm »
No yelling from Blue's corner...... ;)
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Re: Gettin 3 hives ready for new queens
« Reply #4 on: April 24, 2014, 06:50:07 pm »
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Re: Gettin 3 hives ready for new queens
« Reply #5 on: April 24, 2014, 10:54:12 pm »
the reason you can't de-queen ahead of time is because if they are queenless for more than 24 hours they will build their own queen cells and reject the new queen.
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