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    Default apidea management and grafting photos

    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.
    Last edited by Jon; 11-12-2012 at 02:19 PM.

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