Re: Beekeeping in the Pacific Northwest, a few questions
Black berry is the last of the flows here in Portland. Depending on the elevation depends on when it ends. I find at the airport it is 2 weeks before where I am at Boring for only 500 ft. elevation change. My flow is pretty much done but in Sandy (Bull Run Watershed) it is still going strong. Up a couple of thousand feet and it is just starting. If I were on a trailer I could just slide up the mountain and have a longer flow.
Last year I made up queenless nucs to raise queens (that I split into nucs) on July 22 (I had 3/4 mated, 1 failed in spring). I tried again in Aug 20th and only 1/4 made it through the mild winter. I would say it is still OK to do a split but I am going to start this week for OW nucs.
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