Norfolk retirees harvest rewards of beekeeping
October 12, 2017
From: Omaha World-Herald
By Andrea Larson / World-Herald News Service
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Both beekeepers said mites are a big challenge when working with colonies.
“When I first started, I didn’t understand the destructiveness of what’s called a varroa mite. Those things are just killing colonies like crazy. The problem with the varroa mite is it carries a lot of disease with it, so it weakens the hive,” Pofahl said.
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