One of our sites (taken last year) where we will be splitting to make new colonies
We are expecting 20 New Zealand queens next tuesday so on Sunday I will be putting brood above queen excluders in readiness for splitting and introducing queens into new colonies. This should bring us up to about 50 stocks with another 12 queens due in may taking us to 60 plus colonies, we are hoping for good weather for the next few weeks so these colonies can build up for the summer flow. Most of them will be on OilSeed Rape so given good weather we should see some looking colonies come June.
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