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Offline Michael Bush

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Re: what do you folks think of package bees?
« Reply #20 on: May 10, 2009, 08:56:48 pm »
It's hard to beat a package when you want to do a top bar hive or mediums and the only nucs available are deeps.

The quality of queens has gone downhill in the last decade and the packages often seem to fail because of that.
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