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Tag: How to Hive Budding

Budding Hive Instructions – How To

April 18, 2018September 29, 2021 steve

Box Placement / Position: The bees will use sight to find their hive entrance,  looking at structures around it, trees, posts, fences, bricks etc.  If you left the old hive where it was and connected a new Budding Hive to the front the bees would exit the hive and return the old hive entrance and […]

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