Boris
12-09-2006, 07:58 AM
According to the USDA ARS : "Following the advice of the cooperating beekeepers and the Office of Technology Transfer, and attending to the constraints of having a limited number of highly desirable breeder queens and the need to have a CRADA (Cooperative Research And Develpoment Agreement) partner in close proximity to Baton Rouge, Charlie Harper of Carencro, Louisiana was asked by ARS if he would be willing to serve the beekeeping industry and function as the CRADA partner. He would be responsible for producing and selling ARS Russian honey bee breeder queens to the industry and also be responsible for collecting information from the industry concerning the performance of the various queen lines distributed by the program. Charlie Harper agreed to assume these responsibilities and began producing group "B" breeder queens for distribution in the late Winter of 2003 and early Spring of 2004. Group "C" breeder queens were released to the industry in 2005, and the 2006 breeder queens belong to group "A".
The breeding rotation comes full circle, when the 2007 breeder queens will again be group "B" (LIGHT BLUE + line color (Blue or Red)."
More info is here: http://www.beebehavior.com/russian_bees.php
Boris
The breeding rotation comes full circle, when the 2007 breeder queens will again be group "B" (LIGHT BLUE + line color (Blue or Red)."
More info is here: http://www.beebehavior.com/russian_bees.php
Boris