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Becky Edmiston, biology professor at Colorado Mountain College Steamboat Springs and president of the Routt County Beekeepers Association, holds a frame of bees while teaching fellow beekeepers about mites. (Photo by Dylan Anderson) Chris Bradley’s bees aren’t doing so well this year. He keeps them at his home up on Seedhouse Road, but it isn’t the Morgan Creek Fire that has been the issue. Last year he had seven hives each with between 30,000 and 40,000 bees. Each hive wanted to swarm, which means the bees want to split the hive into two and make a new queen. He was optimistic, but after he split his bees into 14 hives, the flowers dried up and only four made it through the winter. This year just two of his hives are doing well and two are not. His bees are not making drones either.

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