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I dont think that every strain of bees from africa has aggressive tendency associated with shorter devlopment time. Bees like A.M. Monticola and A.M.Sahariensis also have shorter development time and...

Was watching this thread for some time.

From what I have heard from people Dr. Russell produces some great quality queens with specific traits for each line. People who buy them are more than...

What criteria do you use to select your breeder queen apart from production, disease resistance, gentleness, brood pattern etc. Does anyone select for anything else such as foraging distance, wing...

Just water. Nothing else.

Sometimes we wash frames to make the queens lay in it. I dont know why, but if you wash the frames and put it back in the hive, the queens start laying in them very fast.

looked in different forums about the genetics, but nothing found.

Hope Dr. Russell can give some input about it.

I have read that moonbeams are a combination of different races of bees which created a hybrid with some very good qualities.

Does anyonw know what all races of bees were used in the development...

You are 100 percent right about it. :)

Jamie Strange, PH'd...was a post doc at Cornell, and now at Utah or Idaho...studied the French bees in France. The local beekeepers of these Apis m. m. felt that the importation of Buckfast bees into...

Some interesting research on the gene pool in United States. Both of them are pretty recent

http://comp.uark.edu/~aszalan/magnus_jas_2011.pdf

http://comp.uark.edu/~aszalan/szalanski.pdf

Landing boards are essential part of the hive. Especially in the spring and summer. In the nature the bees dont usually have hive entrances very close to the ground. So the bees wont crash land to...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_f7F555AWcU&feature=related

The video is pretty good but its not in english.

There is no nectar coming into the hives except a bit of pollen. It will be spring here in a few months time, but I think it is unusual to find such large number ofbees, drones and brood in a hive...

I basically run carniolan bees. But last season I got one italian hive just to see how they do in my place. They did well with honey production and all. I usually leave a drone frame in all my hives....

If you are able to get queens from New Zealand, David from Daykel Apiaries will be a good place. He does keep a wide range of Carniolans and have a closed mating program and each line is maintained...

But what is the maximium number of drones a stong hive will keep? How many drone frames will that be? 1, 2, or 3?

If we keep rotation the drone frames there is a chance of apreading other...

So treating with any strips such as apistan, bayvarol or apivar will sterilize the drones? I did not know that. How does this happen? Does that mean that the drones will not produce semen at all if...

I am planning to use a few hives to increase the desired lines of drones around the area to get queens mated to them.

How many drone frames do people use in drone hives? I currently have one...

Any Idea where it was first observed?

Is it true that cordovan color was only seen in italian bees? Was it developed by humans or naturally occuring color variation?

Anyone knows where and when it was recorded first?

That will be very interesting to find out. Do let me know what he says about it.

I did a bit more search on development time of worker bees. Everthing points to one direction which says unless you have genetics in the bees for shorter development time, you cannot reduce the time...

I am not sure about that Barry. If a regular "Joe" beekeeper has come up with a hypothesis, then I expect some one to actually test that hypothesis in the way which the beekeeper suggests it would...

These are some research done on small cell size foundation regarding varroa. None of them seems to support the myth of reduced mite numbers.

A. M. Ellis, G. W. Hayes, J. D. Ellis. 2009. The...