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John Portnoy
Address:
60 Narrowland Rd. Wellfleet, MA 02667
Description:
John Portnoy
| Bee Information | |
| Bees for sale? | |
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| If "Other" please explain | |
| I raise queens for my own use every May and June, and sell excess queen cells and virgins. | |
| What characteristics do you use to select your breeding stock? | |
| Gentleness, low mite counts in late summer, productivity, queen longevity and of course winter survival. | |
| Where is the source of your bees and what strain(s) are they? | |
| I started with Carniolans and Russians, have bought only one queen ( and no nucs or packages) over the past 13 years. All my queens are open mated, but we are fairly isolated on the outer Cape Cod peninsula, and I provide my neighboring beekeepers with queen stock. | |
| Where do the bees overwinter? | |
| In my yard here in Wellfleet. | |
| Do the bees spend the whole season in your home location? If not, where do they go and when, and for how long? | |
| Yes. | |
| Do you monitor for varroa mites? How and how often? | |
| In July and September. | |
| Have your hives been inspected by an inspector? | |
| Yes. I'm in the USDA APHIS Honey Bee Pests & Disease Survey. | |
| Anything else? | |
| I run two scale hives; one with about 17 years of data, which I rely on heavily to manage my bees. | |
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