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<blockquote><strong class="quote">Naomi Price wrote:</strong> <P><BR> Shawn,</P> <P>Five Central Oregon beekeepers purchased a total of 18 Purdue Mite Biter queens from Starr Farms. Seventeen of those queens were disposed of because they were extremely defensive. Start Farms wouldn’t acknowledge the problem. <BR></P> <P>I remember a conversation with owner/beekeeper of Start Farms. He stated how tired he was of working his highly defensive colonies. Yet he wasn’t doing anything to correct his own problem. His thought was to cross the Purdue Mite Biter with Russian. My thought is to stay away from suppliers that can’t correct such bee behavior in their own apiary. </P> <P><BR></P> </blockquote><br>
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