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- Hive Type
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- Number of Hives
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Of course it can be done but supremely selfish and lazy.Or you could run a Warre hive. April, add one or two boxes. Let them swarm if they want. September take one box of honey if they can spare it and leave alone for winter. Circle starts again in April. That’s two checks (not inspections) a year. It really is that simple and don’t believe anyone that tells you it cant be done.
Other beekeepers have to mop up the varroa in their own hives and innocent householders have to pay for bees to be killed in their chimneys and walls.
Silly advice