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Then, in May, Wally sold me three Italian queens to re-queen some of my cranky Carniolan hives, but I discovered that it was too late in the season; the bee populations had already picked up so that it was impossible to find the queen - even after two passes on each frame in every box by two people.
Archive 2005-09-01 2005
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This will re-queen your apiary, will prevent swarming for that season, will put a large number of bees into the field -- there being no larvae to feed, will prevent thousands of bees from being hatched after they are of no use as gatherers of honey, and the honey needed for raising those bees will go into the supers.
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Given three pure Italian queens to start with, a beekeeper may easily re-queen his whole bee-yard in the course of a year.
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-- Queen bees for breeding purposes will be sent to beekeepers of the State from University Farm during the coming summer with instructions how to introduce them and how to re-queen the apiary.
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Both Miller and Jeffreys raise their own queens and re-queen the aggressive hives.
New Times News 2010
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Both Miller and Jeffreys raise their own queens and re-queen the aggressive hives.
New Times News 2010
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One needs a proper place to take care of the hive properly, and to be able to re-queen to control the gene pool, or the hive will pass feral genes via queen swarms, and drones.
unknown title 2009
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One needs a proper place to take care of the hive properly, and to be able to re-queen to control the gene pool, or the hive will pass feral genes via queen swarms, and drones.
unknown title 2009
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One needs a proper place to take care of the hive properly, and to be able to re-queen to control the gene pool, or the hive will pass feral genes via queen swarms, and drones.
unknown title 2009
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