Daily Archives: June 23, 2014

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Meet the ancestors: Lisa and George

This entry was posted in Kristiens Notes Uncategorized and tagged q3 on June 23, 2014 by Kristien Z

Lisa was a beautiful big orange queen that arrived in my yard in early spring of 2012 with a good size swarm. Jan was picking gooseberries and saw it go into my dark green topbarhive. I moved the comb into a deep. Hoping for success, I opened the hive 2 […]

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Grafting: Round 3

This entry was posted in Beekeepers Notes Lizs Notes and tagged qr3 on June 23, 2014 by Liz Thompson

On Sunday, June 22, we met at Kristien’s house to graft the cells for Round 3 of the queen rearing project. We first checked on the nurse nucs we had made up on Saturday.  The deep nuc still seemed strong; however, it did seem that some of the bees had flown back […]

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