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  • From: Lewis Cauble <lewis AT hivebody.com>
  • Cc: ocba AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [ocba] Hive check reports?
  • Date: Thu, 1 Mar 2012 22:42:49 -0500

Things look reasonable to me. It's hard to tell from the pictures, but on the bottom of a frame or two there looks to be some old swarm cells. It might just be burr comb but if they were old swarm cells, that would explain the unmarked queen. Supercedure would also explain the unmarked queen. At any rate you have a good laying queen and that's what matters. Looks like they have plenty of room to grow.

Lewis


On Mar 1, 2012, at 9:26 PM, Blair Christian wrote:

Any comments about these photos?
https://picasaweb.google.com/106022773068627809372/HiveCheck1March2012?authuser=0&authkey=Gv1sRgCOe-tvCft46_Uw&feat=directlink

I think it's looking pretty well. I treated with MAQS 2 weeks ago,
but I still saw at least half a dozen with shriveled wing virus. It's
my first check after overwintering- does it look fine? Last year I
had one deep and then added one medium in mid summer (the bees filled
it out with honey/sugar syrup). The plan is to get them into 2 deeps
and retrieve the medium for a honey super or something else, so I put
the medium on the bottom and the new deep on top. Any comments other
than, wear a veil? I ordered a marked queen with my nuc when I got it
last June, but this queen is not marked (and has shorter wings than I
was expecting). Abdication?

I still don't know what to expect. Does anybody have anything else to report?

Best,
Blair
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