http://www.littleluceyfarm.com/honeybees/index.php/2015/05/did-i-already-say-swarm-again/ Trying to get a handle on these amazing creatures Sun, 24 Apr 2016 00:42:00 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.2.35 http://www.littleluceyfarm.com/honeybees/index.php/2015/05/did-i-already-say-swarm-again/#comment-61 Sun, 17 May 2015 04:12:34 +0000 http://www.littleluceyfarm.com/honeybees/?p=673#comment-61 Why are we rearing queens and setting up nurse hives when Liz has a much easier system. It keeps spitting out new queens with a couple pounds of support bees. Do you think we can replicate this? It seems to me that a swarm is a much more natural and perhaps viable way to propagate a line of queens than grafting and stealing nurse bees and brood. This is awesome! Way to go Liz!

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