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    Default A day out with a queen rearer

    Great to spend some time with an experienced queen rearer ......

    Here's a queen in one stock opened for the first time this year. A site for the less pure stocks rather than those used for breeding. You might recognise the soft Belfast tones.



    In the shade, tucked away:



    His favourite mating site with drone colonies behind the fence, nucs for rearing queens to the right and platforms for Apideas in the shade at the left.


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    And there was me thinking it was a reincarnation of George Best!

    Seriously though....looks like good times Jon and Gavin. And opening hives in March - you can tell it's the bright sunny south. No hope of that here yet.

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    Still plenty of space left on that site for more hives even counting the boxes you cant see, just flatten the raspberries, cabbage and spud growing area ( maybe not the spuds) and thats another 30+ boxes at least ......

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    Plenty of gaffer tape in evidence. There will be plenty more correx available after this next election.

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    Some of the posters are up already and Jon's gona be dissapointed - they are much smaller than usual

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    Yep. Those cheapskates with their small posters have no regard for beekeepers.

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    Still big enough for a crownboard, a couple of dummies or a small pile of Apidea frames .

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    probably big enough for a 5 frame nuc roof but too small to make a nuc body from, maybe some of the other parties will be more extravagant

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