In the Apiary
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Setting up a Swarm Trap
After my last experience with purchasing packages of honeybees, I decided that I did not want to do it again. The process for creating packages and how they are handled are cruel and I am pretty sure the system is very harmful to the bees. Since I started getting packages of bees, more than ten years ago, there have been so many issues. I have ordered packages from various places in the hopes that some would be better than the others, but they have not been. Every package I have received has had little to no sugar water left and they had been in the boxes for too long. There…