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I had an e-mail from a friend kath last week to say that her colony was down to a few hundred bees and no queen. This was a nuc I sold her in July.
This afternoon I had another e-mail to say that she had had another look and there were only a couple of dozen bees but the queen was still there.
This was her first and only colony so I volunteered to rescue her queen to an Apidea.
I put a cupful of bees in an apidea from a nuc I have in the garden and brought it over. She opened ...