This is a series of pictures about apideas. I took most of them earlier this evening and yesterday.
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This is what you see when you have laying workers in an apidea.
laying workers in apidea.jpg
This is the pattern you get with a drone laying queen. There is a single egg in each cell.
drone laying queen.jpg
This is what you hope to see - a normal egg laying pattern.
normal egg pattern.jpg
This is what you end up with when you start a queen rearing group.
apideas piled high.jpg
The season starts by making sure everything is free of nosema spores by treating with 80% Acetic acid for a week.
cleaning apidea frames.jpg
Edit, I meant acetic acid not oxalic acid.
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