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Wintering Hives, another reason to use deep boxes.
While researching overwintering to get other opinions in preparation for my upcoming talk at the Ohio State Beekeepers Association Summer Conference I discovered Michael Bush’s page on overwintering. I’ve written before on the advantages of switching to all medium but never considered overwintering as a reason to switch to medium brood boxes.
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I need a queen NOW!
I’m not sure what exactly is happening in the world of queen production, but it seems to me that there is some big shortage of queens. We get calls daily demanding we produce an extra queen for them now (out of thin air apparently). We typically get a few a week this time of year, …
