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All day today at the Bell Museum on the UofM campus.\u00a0 Advanced beekeeping.\u00a0 I learned a number of new things that I’ll take to heart this year.\u00a0 One is an experiment I plan to do with two colonies which will involve one hive box, then all honey supers after that.\u00a0 The third colony I plan to treat in the usual way with building up the colony to three hive boxes with plenty of honey and then trying, again, to overwinter.<\/p>\n
Other new wrinkles here and there, too.\u00a0 Marla Spivak and Gary Reuter do a funny and informative dance, switching between hive management (Gary) and bee diseases and research (Marla).<\/p>\n
I just got back and have had no nap, so I’m off to bed.\u00a0 Later.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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