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  • From: Mark <markapowers53 AT gmail.com>
  • To: Hamsiba Family <hamsibas AT gmail.com>
  • Cc: "ocba AT lists.ibiblio.org" <ocba AT lists.ibiblio.org>, LeAnne Silver <silvergrl AT rocketmail.com>
  • Subject: Re: [ocba] Package success
  • Date: Sat, 4 Apr 2015 22:01:57 -0400

So far two packages seem fine.  I'll look for eggs and brood in a week.  Queens out as expected and lots of activity at entrance.

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On Apr 4, 2015, at 7:58 AM, Hamsiba Family <hamsibas AT gmail.com> wrote:

I am curious about how everyone has faired with their spring package installations. This year we had conditions of cool wet weather.

Two of us in our mentoring group successfully installed multiple packages. Two others are either getting nucs or waiting til later.

One family had some difficulty. Two of three packages ended up starving for some reason. They lost one queen to starvation and combined them after a couple of days, but prognosis its not good. Their third package is just fine.

Don visited and saw no disease issues. The bees may have been too weak on installation to feed, perhaps the holes in the feed can in the package were small. Beekeeper error its always possible, but it is strange that one package is fine while the other two are not.

We are just curious about experiences of the rest of the group.  Hopefully we can all learn something about installing packages in fickle spring weather.

Thanks, Brad Kosiba

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