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procrastination

Thankfully we didn't give up on them ...
Yes, our hive 1 in the garden contains the colony from the late, small swarm taken in Uplyme last year and the one we seriously considered uniting with another colony.  In fact it was only our lack o...[more]

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Posted on Tuesday 09 June 2009 - 17:33:21