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- From: "Wilson" <infomet AT embarqmail.com>
- To: "OCBA" <ocba AT lists.ibiblio.org>
- Subject: Re: [ocba] Package success
- Date: Sat, 4 Apr 2015 22:24:25 -0400
I don’t have experience or training to warrant credibility, but I think the
assembly and transport of packages is a brutal process that seems to be becoming
more so.
And at a hundred bucks, it’s an expensive loss when one doesn’t work.
I have no idea how to go about it, but it would certainly be nice if we
could somehow generate enough local nucs to meet needs in the spring.
At the least, we need to somehow get producers to use better
procedures. It’s obviously worthwhile to pay a little more for a nuc with
a functioning queen and eggs.
The local nuc I got last year scared me with inactivity in the cold
weather, but they have exploded and required extra room to work!
Sure, it’s only a sample of one, but at least I started with a queen that
had laid some eggs before I got her!
WL
From: Cole Rizki
Sent: Saturday, April 04, 2015 7:11 PM
To: Hamsiba Family
Subject: Re: [ocba] Package success Hi Brad et al,
I also had a likely starvation issue with one of my two packages; upon
inspection after 3 days, both queens were out but I had about 1.5 lbs of dead
bees on my screen bottom board in one of my hives. Don also came out to inspect
and suggested it may have been due to starvation. The syrup can that came with
this particular package was also relatively full suggesting that perhaps the
holes in the can were not sufficiently punched for the bees to have access to
sugar water during travel and prior to installation. Both hives also had access
to full top feeders immediately upon installation, so the starvation likely
would have occurred in transit before they were installed.
Did other people experience losses like this?
-Cole
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[ocba] Package success,
Hamsiba Family, 04/04/2015
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Re: [ocba] Package success,
Cole Rizki, 04/04/2015
- Re: [ocba] Package success, Wilson, 04/04/2015
- Re: [ocba] Package success, Mark, 04/04/2015
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Re: [ocba] Package success,
Cole Rizki, 04/04/2015
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