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How to keep hive numbers to a manageable number, whatever that number is. Balancing the needs of swarm control and replacement of winter losses with the time, energy, equipment and enthusiasm available.
https://theapiarist.org/enough-bees/
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And then there were two. What happens when you split a colony into two? Why might ‘walk away splits’ not be the best way of increasing colony numbers?
https://theapiarist.org/doing-the-splits/
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How do eggs appear in places the queen cannot reach? Do these eggs produce worker or drone brood? If bees can move eggs, can they move them to queen cells?
https://theapiarist.org/do-bees-move-eggs/
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Recent research on the maternal effect in honey bees suggests queen rearing using worker larvae may produce undersized and underperforming queens.
https://theapiarist.org/bigger-queens-better-queens-part-1/
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