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Caging queens to fight varroa - useful technique or needless sacrifice of productivity? (www.betterbee.com)
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This article was published recently and it seems like the method described could be useful or may just interrupt broodrearing so much that a colony wouldn't ever be able to thrive after being subjected to it. Who has tried any queen caging method like this before? Did it work for you?

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