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Offline Joseph Clemens

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Spring 2008 Queens
« on: April 17, 2008, 06:10:13 pm »
Many of the queens in my Nucs this year are looking very good, I thought I'd take a few photos, in case they never look this good again - here is an example:


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Re: Spring 2008 Queens
« Reply #1 on: April 17, 2008, 10:23:44 pm »
Ewwww! Uuuggglllyyy. Yuck Yuck Yuck. (sarcasm)

That is just to darn nice not to pick on a little bit. ;)

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Re: Spring 2008 Queens
« Reply #2 on: April 17, 2008, 10:27:11 pm »
Yeah, who wants a big juicy queen like that in their hive!  :-D


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Offline Joseph Clemens

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Re: Spring 2008 Queens
« Reply #3 on: April 18, 2008, 01:22:14 am »
I really like how this lighting shows up the soft fur coats the queen and some of her workers are wearing.

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Joseph Clemens
Beekeeping since 1964
10+ years in Tucson, Arizona
12+ hives and 15+ nucs
No chemicals -- no treatments of any kind, EVER.

 

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