Ferel Bees? Linage questions?

[mobees]

I had to let some of my Virgin Queens mate with the local boys, here in Mass. Which seemed to yield a hodgepoge of different bee colorations. I have allblack, my NWCarni tigerlike bands, and Gray Tiger. Really, a funky looking bunch of girls. There is one other and I swear they are the minority and it seems like they do all the work. They are a little bit smaller and have a black tipped abdomen on end and a single slight stripe right in the middle of an otherwise off orange abdomen. I figured there had to have been different bee races mating with the virgin, and variation from the Cali stock. Any Ideas on black tipped bee.

[Michael Bush]

Of course there is no telling what drones she mated with.

[bjerm2]

She probably mated with 'wild' drones that also have a big mix in their genes. This actually makes for a better bee (for lack of words). This brings out hybrid vigor in your stock and it also produces a bee that is more to the setting of your area in terms of weather and plants. Enjoy watching all the different ladies working. http://www.beesource.com/ubb/smile.gif
Dan