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30th May 201814th December 2018 lytchettbayapiaries Queen Rearing

The Queen is dead!

Not what you want to find while carrying out hive inspections - a dead queen, and one of this years too! Luckily I raise my own queens, so am able to replace her easily enough, but it is always sad to find a dead queen. I spent the morning marking new virgin queens, and then … Continue reading The Queen is dead!

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