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Notes from the Beeyard 
• Season 1 
• Episode 34

Queens in the Bank

Honeybee castes: workers, queen and drone, wood engraving, artist unknown
Honeybee castes: workers, queen and drone, wood engraving, artist unknown

Tom Theobald extolls an elegant solution. Tom and Laura chat about banking queens.

“I had a significant financial investment in these queens and I didn’t want any of those queens to fail because I didn’t get them into the colonies as quickly as I should . . .”

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CREDITS

Producer: Laura Tyler

Author: Tom Theobald

Editor: Andy Schwarz

Music: "Americana" and "Sonorus" by Mr Smith are licensed under CC by 4.0

Logo Design: Janet Cerretani

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