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Adding supers...... Yesterday and today Adding Lang brood box/supers - Should be easy right? What was I thinking when I decided to standardize on Lang brood boxes a supers.... All I can think is it must be the 11th frame that adds so much additional weight.... Has to be! They never used to be...

Brilliant...... Share the lamb........:laughing-smiley-014

You've all heard of the Africanized Bees..... Africanized Kuala Bear..... Watch out Australia...

:iagree: I think that will give them the best fighting chance....

Happy that it worked out for both you and the bees,,,,, and well done! You put a lot of effort into this.... I hope they grow into a top performing colony for you...

In all fairness,,,,,, the % of aggressive colonies is far out weighed by the placid ones... I have many calm colonies, I can even open a lid on top of some brood box's and have a look,,, as long as its slow and calculated moves you are just fine... Dont blow on them, dont bump down your smoker...

The foot traffic and thieves I need to contend with.... Well one of them...:cautious:

I'm out in the rural districts/farming areas.... This is the local bee it would seem..... Usually we find them in the mountains and cliffs... Recently they have been coming down more and more into the flatter areas... I/we believe they have adapted to survive here... Only the strongest...

I must admit, it was a close call.... We removed 3 during the day at lunch time..... sealed up boxes and dumped them next to the river...... I almost did not open up.... But then thought I would only be punishing the innocent ones that stayed behind to look after the queen and brood...

Not common but also not unheard of..... One of our dairy managers had his two dogs stung to death a few years ago.... Wild colony in a chimney - also the darker varient... We seem to be blessed here with this darker colonies.... At least once a month I have to remove a colony from somewhere...

Acasia nectar flow on here at the moment...... Nothing out of the ordinary though....? Dog died in my arms... My son recently moved out and lives alone... his first dog - just over a year old Boerbul... Eyes welling up again as I type this.... Very upsetting.....

So this is how my new year/season has started.... They so no good deed goes unpunished... The black or darker strain of bee I was trying save/preserve turned on me.... Home apiary - Day before news years. Bees agitated for no apparent reason and went for my two dogs. (Dogs have no access to...

Wishing all a great new year...

Haa haa, not me playing,,,, just forwarding something on I had received - But thanks anyhow

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