Black Bee Crossword

Black Bee Crossword
Here is something to occupy your mind as you contemplate all those raisins in the un-eaten half of the christmas pudding. Perhaps this will provide new incentives for using the brandy to really "flambe" the pudding this year.

Black Bee Crossword

Here is something to occupy your mind as you contemplate all those raisins in the un-eaten half of the christmas pudding. Perhaps this will provide new incentives for using the brandy to really "flambe" the pudding this year.

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Across

1. Distinctive parts of the year for dealing with black bees

5. What black bees do with honey more effectively

8. Beekeepers imperative when inspecting black bees

9. A set of eight attacking black bees

10. Geographic feature preventing escape from black bees

11. Land of tolerance where black bees would be welcome

12. Receptacle for extract of 5a after black bees have been overcome

14. State of hive with confirmed AFB among black bees

17. Black bee strategy for managing beekeepers

19. Not normally provided to black bee colonies

22. Best thing to do with a black bee colony

23. The second hardest thing to find in a black bee hive

24. That part of the beekeeping year when black bees are easiest to manage

25. What is left in the filter after honey has been extracted from black bees

Down

1. Fantastic item for adding to a beehive with black bees

2. Do this to apiary records on discovery of black bees

3. Standard verbal description of vigorous hive of black bees

4. Frequently used by hobbyist beekeepers for inspections of black bees

5. Used for management of black bee colonies

6. Preferred location for black bees

7. Part of process involved in filling 12a from black bee colony

12. Flight path of black bees to a nectar source

13. Winter state of black bee colony

15. How a black bee treats beekeeper attention

16. Beekeepers after being treated by black bees

18. Black bees position on suspected approach of beekeeper

20. Black bees do this better

21. Important to do this properly with tie-down ropes when moving black bees

Answers

James & Lynne Scott