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Offline colbees

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« on: June 25, 2012, 06:22:34 pm »
i checked my hive today and saw that on top of the frames in the bottom brood box the bees have a little bit of comb and larva there. is this ok?
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Offline iddee

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Re: bees
« Reply #1 on: June 25, 2012, 07:46:17 pm »
It's drone comb. Anywhere they can draw burr comb. It's normal.
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Re: bees
« Reply #2 on: June 25, 2012, 07:50:39 pm »
Ditto.  That was just was just what I was going to say.   

 

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