prepare – Keeping Backyard Bees https://www.keepingbackyardbees.com Fri, 20 Oct 2017 21:09:14 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.5 https://i2.wp.com/www.keepingbackyardbees.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/favicon.png?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 prepare – Keeping Backyard Bees https://www.keepingbackyardbees.com 32 32 The Backyard Buzz – Transporting Bees Without Nuc Boxes https://www.keepingbackyardbees.com/the-backyard-buzz-transporting-bees-without-nuc-boxes/ https://www.keepingbackyardbees.com/the-backyard-buzz-transporting-bees-without-nuc-boxes/#comments Sat, 02 May 2015 01:10:39 +0000 http://backyardbees.wpengine.com/?p=1519 For readers who live in areas of the country with winters as harsh as those in Northeastern Pennsylvania, colony loss is expected in the spring. As we try to grow our apiary from year to year, winter losses are always a disappointing setback. Two years ago we decided to not just replace the hives lost over the winter, but to […]

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