From: "deelusbybeekeeper" <deelusbybeekeeper@excelonline.com>
Date: Wed, 4 Jul 2001 07:55:09 -0700
To: <BiologicalBeekeeping@yahoogroups.com>
Subject: Re: Righting laying worker colonies

Hi to all on Biological Beekeeping

Pav wrote:

> Interesting is right.

> Are you behind the line of AHB advance (is AHB supposedly in your area)?
>
> -Pav - sorry Dee, gotta know.

Reply:

Gee Pav, we have always done this with our bees, and we showed it to the
USDA in the mid-1980s a decade before the AHB politics got here. They even
co-ed a paper with us documenting the happenings in the late 1980s with a
few other things like speeded up genetics we thought every one wanted, etc.

http://www.beesource.com/pov/lusby/bsmay1991.htm

But we did not go any further, other then that of giving them stock to watch
and follow. We always open mate and they use insemination. We figured they could carry on once they got the stock to use.

Does this mean it was in our bees prior to politics arriving? :>)

What about Clay? The line must have moved again? :>)

I think it's just bees Pav........naturally kept bees....and beekeepers
using natural methodology and giving the bees a chance to do what they were created to do.

It's just a short gap requeening in a high stress situation so the bees can
continue, normally with weak hives, that then have to rebuild and requeen
later to carry on.

You ought to try it the bees way and watch, should you naturally come upon
the situation. It's beautiful to watch.

Dee