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Basically, yes. Amm tend to regulate their brood nests a bit more than the flat out sort of vibe with good buckfasts.

Yes

Spot on, the purest island mated carnies in Germany were found to have vestiges of Amm dna 80 odd years after they went all out for carnies. I don't believe this downgraded their esteem of the bees or made a scrap of difference practically but if you want to see angels on pin heads you've only...

There is the "definitely nearly all Amm" sub category

I think the major difference to spot on the coal face would be the closer to "definitely Amm" you get the more consistency you'll see in her daughters.

I started using 9 frames to a super for exactly the same reason. Now that reason's long gone as I've a few different extractors* but I still like to get my frames into a 9 frame format in the supers as I find it makes uncapping that much quicker with fatter frames. In our system foundation goes...

Good luck for the future

Crikey, this is close to the bone at the moment

Difficult to say from a photo but my money would be on near native

We've got a 20 frame radial and a 8 frame swing cage which will take 16 shallows, found its quicker putting all the decent frames through the swing cage konigin machine and any poorly filled frames through the radial machine. The swing cage jobby is by far the better machine. I feel your pain...

Bit of a tangent but I still get excited about the first sweet little pembs new potatoes, tato newi, nothing better!

I bet it was Shane, nice bloke if it was.

From what I understood from the most quoted recent study of irish bees you are grossly misrepresenting the facts. The conclusions in no way indicated that the bees sampled were " mostly European genetics from the study they did and some pockets of native Irish bees" What sort of twisted drum...

Sounds to me like you'd have been much better off spending a little more with any of the very many British queen producers capable of producing a couple of dozen queens for your needs. Your second sentance is just untrue, and the third stands to reason

Caveat emtor springs to mind. There are more sustainable ways to expand without introducing poluting genetics.

Same boat here. I've always thought its best to have a foot in both camps, I have a local network of shops who take my honey, I'd hate to disappoint them in lean years so marketing has to realistically match what I'd expect to get in a poor year and then the surplus gets sold in bulk. Bulk...

I see mites after oxalic treatment, not all of then die quickly but I dont think that they're very successful at breeding after exposure to an acidic environment. Red dear hinds need to be in good condition to breed, maybe something akin is happening. Will varroa ever get resistant to oxalic...

Its as long as the proverbial piece of string, more to do with queen age/colony development than calendar date in my experience, not that I've ever opened more than a dozen or so between November and February over the last twenty odd years.

I bought one like this for transporting cells as it'll work from a *** socket, turns out its perfectly adequate to incubate 40 plus cells ftom sealing to hatching...

Its often sold in markets in Africa by the teaspoon , usually straight into a child's mouth to alleviate tummy upset