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Hi David,
Any selection in breeding takes time and energy. If you use the unknown stock, you might be taking advantage of that time/energy.
If the queens you make from the colonies are just so-so,...

Thanks--we produce only AI Breeder queens.
However, here's a link to a list of queen producers that use our stock (some of them are in MD and PA).
http://www.vpqueenbees.com/referral.html

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Hi Giorgio,
You are welcome! :)

Dr. Fell has always been a great teacher: his ability to make information understandable and applicable is amazing.

Have a good season!
Adam...

We sometimes bank virgins using JZBZ cages--they work fine.
Adam Finkelstein
www.vpqueenbees.com

Good question Hartz!

Yes, early build-up may be selected for. Yes, early build-up will be a trade-off to hardiness/thriftiness as resources that possibly would be kept in reserve for survival, are...

Hi ga.beeman,
Have the nights been cool?

I had a few 15-day-old cells not make it due to chiling, last week.

Adam Finkelstein
www.vpqueenbees.com

Hi Tom,
Priming is done to help get the larva off the tool--the nurse bees remove all the "prime" and put in new jelly.
If your larva are well fed, you can get away with a "dry" graft. Some folks...

Hi
Dadant has 'em also.
Their name is "Benton 3-hole cages".

Maybe the "growling" is just the sound of bees vibrating and resonating through the frames and hive wood. They do that.
The OP was banned.

Adam Finkelstein
www.vpqueenbees.com

That is good! Thanks for the tip--I'll check them out next Fall.
Adam Finkelstein
www.vpqueenbees.com

Did you read the thread?



They haven't gotten the shipping completely down yet.
The boxes I got were very nice and exactly how I needed them.

Adam Finkelstein
www.vpqueenbees.com

Hey--Shastina's quality is very nice! They also custom cut: we needed boxes with no end hand-hold since we run a divider down the middle of the inside of the box dividing it into two small hives....

The tip on these might be too coarse and get messy.
Otherwise they sound great.

Adam Finkelstein
www.vpqueenbees.com

P.S. Regarding Mike Palmer's post, I always manage to spill my...

Hwy Ashb82, others,

Select from what you like the best.
Make sure you do not use only one (1) queen as a mother--use three or more.
Mate the daughters in different locations.
Keep good...

Funny how assumptions are relative. I'm sorry if you felt that the grant we received and performed
according to our agreement with SARE was as you state:

"I don't see value being created with...

Just to reiterate the information:

http://www.beesource.com/forums/showthread.php?277652-VSH-Breeding#29

(Contains info on testing from earlier in this thread).


When we received our SARE...

That's really cool!

:)

Adam
www.vpqueenbees.com

Hi Joe,
There's enough of a demand for VSH and VSH type inseminated breeder queens
to keep people busy during the season... :) Scepticism is healthy, certainly.
And yes, as we all know from...

Joe,
there's a very good demand for VSH stock used by breeders and producers.
Many are using the VSH suite in sub-populations and are currently testing.
I would not state that VSH is helping to...

You use worker brood. Specific aged brood, 100+ cells. Count degree of infestation per cell. % of single mites per cell in your sample is what you want to be higher with VSH Expression.

This links...

A great thread...love to hear from Jeff on VSH: thank you for all your
work Dr. Harris!

VSH in a population can reduce mite levels and associated problems
(vectored virus, other ones). Large...

Hi--thank you for the positive feedback!

Although I know using open-mated breeders is a great way to bring in new stock, we're focusing on producing AI/II Breeder queens solely.

We do have a...

They were at the AHPA in San Diego as of yesterday.

Adam Finkelstein
www.vpqueenbees.com

Hi, this is a very interesting thread! :applause:


I have read with great interest how nectar seems to be less plentiful then in decades past and I've noticed that too.

My daughter sent me...

Tom retired for family reasons.
He sold his bees and breeder queens very easily!

Adam Finkelstein
www.vpqueenbees.com