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Technically would this mean (assuming the virgins used are 100% Amm) that the genetic make up of the workers in the colony produced by this Queen would be 50% Amm and 50% A m cecropia or macedonica... but if the tip of the queens wing was clipped and DNA tested (which can now be done) she would...

I was reading another Thread which has gone way :ot:😲 and a question came into my mind.... Are there any Apis mellifera mellifera imports occurring into the British Isles? I understand that this may seem like a strange question, but from my understanding there is a good demand for 'Black' bees...

At the last Convention here in N. Ireland I spoke to a bee inspector (who was very experienced, knowledgeable, and VERY well thought of) I asked him casually how many beekeepers they thought were NOT registered through an Association, at the time UBKA had about 850 signed up members, I was told...

Hi Lislarybees can you give us Links to those Studies that you have read, I would be very interested in reading what these "limiting factors" are? Our knowledge of what happens between when the queen leaves and returns to the hive (mating nuc) is poor. Thanks in advance.

Unfortunately that map (Post #34) is now quite outdated. This research paper is very good: http://www.tara.tcd.ie/bitstream/handle/2262/40560/Edwards&Brooks_INJ08_TARA.pdf;jsessionid=37D3E595A904F39A39A571C1E59DAADC?sequence=1 here is a key sentence; "The resulting reconstructions suggest that...

Thank you for the help guys, I think my confusion has (partially) been caused by a change of names, Natural England's (formally called English Nature) magazine is called Conservation Land Management (formally called Enact), etc; I've been looking for the wrong 'publishers' name, thanks 0bee-1...

Hello mbc thank you for replying, although I sense from your tone you are no inclined to enter into a conversation on this topic, but I will just draw the attention of any readers to a few small points to consider: 1. I never said (all) Irish bees (meaning the Apis mellifera sampled here in...

Thanks for that Link, but this is one of the Articles in which I came across this "claim", although in this case the "claim" is not directly attributed to Natural England, here's the sentence "Although it has been claimed that the Romans brought bees to Britain," This is something I find very...

:banghead::hairpull::hairpull::hairpull::ot::ot::ot: Seriously .... someone here has got to have some info. about this urban legend, anyone, anyone???

Sorry, you're quite right. "our" and "here" is Irish/Ireland. The paper which I'm referring to is linked below, and the sentences that I was thinking of are (to save you having to read it); "...the first organized importation of bees recorded in the Republic of Ireland in 1923, when skeps of...

Well that went off topic quickly So, getting back on topic,

https://bibba.com/amm-in-uk/ The above Link to an article was provided in another Thread, the sentence that caught my attention was this; "...the official body promoting nature conservation south of the border, Natural England, whose staff maintain that the honey bee was introduced by man some...

Is that a page from Beowolf Cooper's (posthumously published) book? Technically, isn't he wrong??? A mongrel is an unintentional and presumably unknown crossing, he then goes on to say that this term can no more be applied to Britain/Ireland or Italy/France, that's not a fair comparison, due...

What sort of "Italians" are they, Latin names might help, etc.

Yes, I wouldn't think that a Tethered Queen and the sudden appearance of Drones behind her would indicate a DCA... but wouldn't those Drones be attempting to mate with the Tethered Queen? And therefore wouldn't it also (maybe) mean that there could be matings occurring between the Virgin Queens...

You paraphrased that from Confucius, didn't you ;-)

Hi mate, Dordogne ... ah what a great part of France, according to the maps the Asian Hornet has reached you, have you seen them around your hives?

? does this mean that Bottom Bee Space has more propolis at the top, and this is the extra cleaning that is meant? My bees start propolising me if I stand holding the frame long enough while looking for that Queen! My bees propolise everything, it does my head in!

Hi mate "survivor bees" must mean more than they are simply alive... I think beeks that refer to bees as survivor bees are implying that they have some special characteristic or ability to survive, while in fact it just may be good luck, flip a coin, in a room of 1024 people someone will get it...

Yes, I too seem to recall reading a reasonably recent research article published online in which it was discovered that A.m.carnica now accounted for around 66% of bee genetics in Poland with the highest percentage towards the west (nearer Germany - were they pretty much only keep carnica). It...