Mid-Summer Waning Garlic Moon Today I performed partial hive box reversals in all three colonies. The second hive box of three gets rotated to the bottom and the first or bottom box rotates up to take its place. This means that all the hive boxes have to be moved, so it is a labor intensive […]
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Mid-Summer Waning Garlic Moon Today is a bee day, with reversals and hive inspections. In reversals hive boxes get shuffled to keep the queen working in the bottom hive box and so the colony feels there is plenty of room, therefore no need to swarm. At last check the colonies all looked good, plenty of […]
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