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Pictures 2 June 2015

catching a drone to practise marking

caught drone

marked drone

boxes should be aligned when put together

aligned boxes

lifting the queen excluder – ease the edges from propolis

lifting queen excluder – lift edges

warp queen excluder carefully, lift it, then watch out for queen on reverse side

lifting queen excluder

placing the first brood frame on the edge of the roof, not on the ground

catching another drone

marking a drone

drones marked all over – good first trial …

John E. marking a queen (blue for 2015)

marking the queen

marked queen

nuc box

nuc box

John shaking bees off frame

queen cells on frame

19 wax moth destruction

wax moth destruction on frame

wax moth

marker cage

demo hive

demo hive

demo hive

23 wax moth destruction

24 Sulfur strips

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