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    New Article on the website

    I added a new article to the website entitled, "Desperate Times require desperate measures". It is my opinion on the current beekeeping climate and how what we are doing fits into it.

    NOW there are four, I hope!

    On Friday May 13, 2017 our order of 20 Carniolan queens from Oliveraz Apiaries arrived from Hawaii. Unfortunately, of the 20, three were dead on arrival. Four people picked up their queens on Friday. The rest got theirs on Saturday the 14th at our May field day. I had ordered four queens myself, so I gave away three of my queens and Oliveraz promised to send three more. I thought they were due to arrive on Monday the 15th. So, for the field day we first distributed the queens to those who had ordered them. My queens were unmarked, so those that took my queens had to get unmarked queens when they had ordered marked queens, but there wasn't much we could do about that. I had housed the que

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