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Smith Mills Apiaries
Address:
224 North Hixville Road, North Dartmouth, Dartmouth, MA 02747, United States
Description:
Smith Mills Apiaries
| Bee Information | |
| Bees for sale? | |
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| What characteristics do you use to select your breeding stock? | |
| Temperament, VSH, overwintering qualities/frugality on resources during winter months. | |
| Where is the source of your bees and what strain(s) are they? | |
| Started with some Carniolans from the Sue Cobey project, sprinkled in some from Mike Palmer and used my own stock. I run about 50 colonies give or take. | |
| Where do the bees overwinter? | |
| All in Massachusetts | |
| Do the bees spend the whole season in your home location? If not, where do they go and when, and for how long? | |
| I have 5 farm locations all in my hometown of Dartmouth Mass but all at least 5 miles apart from each other. | |
| Do you monitor for varroa mites? How and how often? | |
| Yes, we do alcohol washes in spring and generally monthly during the season. Apiguard after the honey supers are pulled in July, they I hit them with 3 applications of OAV when they are broodless from December through January. | |
| Have your hives been inspected by an inspector? | |
| Not recently. Once I sell nucs I will have the State inspector Paul Tessier come out and do an inspection. | |
| Anything else? | |
| I am currently enrolled in the Master Beekeeper program at Cornell University | |
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