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Those bees are bearding like crazy. Which means they are hot and crowded. But they won’t move up into the new supers I’ve added in order to give them some extra room. And yesterday I found swarm cells in Tomboys again. Shit. I would normally add an empty box below one of the brood boxes [...]

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Upon today’s hive inspection I have one very clear realization: I have no idea what I’m doing. Why on earth did I think I could manage a hundred-thousand bees? I am not as smart as I look. Seriously, I get in there with those bees and all those cells and eggs and larvae and brood [...]

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