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My local Mud | Wind | Rain | Cold proof bees ho ho ;)

No need to forage for water this Winter. Just stick their heads out of the entrance :( James

Pleasure.

@SWEET Thank you for the video and the photo of the pollen covered bee.

Bees on the OSR today - (10-12 and windy/showers)

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It will yield some nectar at low temperatures, but needs over 15C to start a half decent flow - its not an off/on thing Plenty of...

I've loads of hives all over OSR currently, 12-15 over the past days - no issues (hammering it today).

OP - The responses are right, if you are asking for advice on here you should not be digging into hives just yet. But if you have the...

You seem to have driven off down another lane, I think I get your gist. Yeah all good if you have the space/island etc; middle of the UK...

Oh yes, there are vastly more complex factors at play they will give all sorts of mixed results. You mention sex alleles and...

And yet it is not so easy because there are at least 2 contributions that it does not take into account: A. The effect of vitellogenin...

Ok, another way to look at it. They get 50% of the Queen's data and 100% of the drone's, so super-sisters share 75% of their DNA. 50%...

Yes, each drone receives a random mix of 16 from the queen's 32 which are then combined with the drone's sperm set of 16 (giving 32 for...

Nope. Queens, virgin or not have 32 chromosomes, as do workers.