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      masterBK replied to the thread No bee suit?.
      Demonstrating bees to others without the veil on was quite common practise in the 1970s. This is me in 1975. A gentle colony was chosen...
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      masterBK replied to the thread Hive survival over winter.
      Not lost a colony from starvation in decades (don't tend to see isolation starvation if wintering on double BCs as bees can get to all...
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      masterBK replied to the thread Queen Ancestry.
      I was under the impression that because reduction division occurs in producing the egg plus because cross over can also occur (exchanges...
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      Many years ago (early 1960s I think) I watched a worcestershire beefarmer with 400 hives sort out which hives to take to fruit farms in...
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      masterBK replied to the thread Hopeful Beginner!!.
      At 74 you might be one of the youngest members in some branches of some beekeeping associations!
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      masterBK replied to the thread Entombed Pollen.
      Is this what you mean? I have always thought this is what I was told was pickled pollen (bee bread) ie cells of lactic preserved pollen
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      masterBK replied to the thread New book on Apideas.
      I use Apideas to get my queens mated. I "Demaree" my 25 double-brood colonies as my selected method of swarm prevention. I get my...
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      I went to my first beekeeping class aged 11 yrs in 1958 , got my first hive in 1959 and kept just two colonies until 1974 when I...
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      masterBK replied to the thread Wax moth treatment!.
      The use of old comb as wax moth bait is not new. I have been doing it for decades ( I have been keeping bees since 1959 and setting up...
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