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  • From: Marty Hanks <marty AT justbeenc.com>
  • To: Orange County Bees <ocba AT lists.ibiblio.org>, NaturalBeesinNC AT yahoogroups.com
  • Subject: [ocba] Jens Bees
  • Date: Sat, 6 Apr 2013 20:36:17 -0400

Hey everyone,

I wanted to share that Jen Hall and I did her very first split today...and not a minute to soon. As you all can guess the bees are about to go into full swarm season this coming week so make sure you get your swarm gear ready!! Jen's bees look EXCELLENT! She had 3 8-frame hive bodies slam full and a new one on top of that she added a week ago.

From those four boxes she got two healthy splits(one in the second picture) and i did a 5 frame medium take away. The frame she is holding had 6 queen cells on it alone, with a total colony queen cell count near 18.

I'm SO proud of her and her bees...back when i was cautioning her to stop feeding them going into winter she mostly listened...but guess whos bees made it there?! 

Well see how they develop and she's putting out 2 swarm boxes just in case. I don't know if we can call her a NEWBEE anymore...well maybe til she catches her first swarm! 

Its about to get crazy this week for sure!

cheers and good luck!
marty

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  • [ocba] Jens Bees, Marty Hanks, 04/06/2013

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