AI

[wightbees]

I now have everything ready and to be honest feel quiet nervous about attempting this! Kind of putting it off really:-/ how many Queens would you more experience people say I will go through before I get it right? I know this is how long a piece of string question really!
Think I might wait until late August before I play about with it?

 

[MartinL]

I now have everything ready . . . .
Think I might wait until late August before I play about with it?

What are you going to put the resulting queens into in August?

Not sure what the long-range weather forecast is, but I'd give it ago ASAP and you'll have some data to run with before the winter closes in.

 

[wightbees]

I'll put them into nucs, this wouldn't be a problem. I also have some colonies I could requeen if really pushed.

 

[For want of a better word]

Sue Cobey reckons 3 dozen.........
look at the IWF vids that B+ has posted up
Drones are the problem with very low numbers producing viable sperm... even when "age marked"... I blame all the crap that big pest co sells to the garden centers and the less educated farmers ( and of course the irresponsible importation of pox ridden foreign bees!!)

Very best of luck

Yeghes da

 

[wightbees]

Thanks, I have looked at the video but struggle with hearing them. I'll think on it a little..

 

[B+.]

I now have everything ready and to be honest feel quiet nervous about attempting this! Kind of putting it off really:-/ how many Queens would you more experience people say I will go through before I get it right? I know this is how long a piece of string question really!
Think I might wait until late August before I play about with it?

Don't wait...practice as much as you can. Practice, practice.....and practice some more!
Sometimes you'll get failures and you can't see what the problem is. Then, someone will say something to you, or you'll see something on YouTube, and the penny will drop. Then things go fine for a while ...until you encounter something else. That's how it goes.
When I first started, I was told that I should be prepared to throw away my first 50 queens. To be honest, I haven't kept count. I'm a bit of a perfectionist so I've probably squished queens that were ok. It's all down to what you want.

 

[B+.]

Thanks, I have looked at the video but struggle with hearing them. I'll think on it a little..

Is there a problem with the sound? They sound ok to me

Cobey 1 of 2 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cZMLo52lUMk
IWF C1746 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b_vcpRnYhHg

Look out for Prof. Peter Schleys YouTube too https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCfD5eH_0sfuaXPqquys2hrg

 

[wightbees]

Yes, I'm deaf lol

 

[wightbees]

Thanks for all the advice, I will give it Go and hopefully next year be in a better position to get it right .

 

[maddydog]

I now have everything ready and to be honest feel quiet nervous about attempting this! Kind of putting it off really:-/ how many Queens would you more experience people say I will go through before I get it right? I know this is how long a piece of string question really!
Think I might wait until late August before I play about with it?

Where did you get your equipment from? Would love a 2nd hand set but guessing they're like rocking horse muck

 

[maddydog]

Drones are the problem with very low numbers producing viable sperm... even when "age marked"... I blame all the crap that big pest co sells to the garden centers and the less educated farmers ( and of course the irresponsible importation of pox ridden foreign bees!!)

Very best of luck

Yeghes da

More libel ammunition?!?

 

[B+.]

Where did you get your equipment from? Would love a 2nd hand set but guessing they're like rocking horse muck

Yes.
Second-hand Insemination equipment is very rare.

 

[maddydog]

Yes.
Second-hand Insemination equipment is very rare.

If I keep expanding then it'll be something I look at, but I'll need to take a deep breath!

 

[Hivemaker.]

If I keep expanding then it'll be something I look at, but I'll need to take a deep breath!

You could make almost all your own equipment, full tutorial in the thread below, and lots of pictures and info of where to obtain just about everything.

http://www.beesource.com/forums/showthread.php?263523-Instrumental-Insemination-Equipment

 

[wightbees]

There's some great info there HM and just goes to show what can be done with a little thought. Micro stages and the Latshaw system was my thoughts and the direction I went. I still have stages spare I think somewhere,..

 

[For want of a better word]

More libel ammunition?!?

I wonder if the "manufacturers" of the incredible number of colonies of imported bumble bees used in the polly tunnel fruit and veg industry use AI....
10s of thousands of bumbles imported annually which is one vector possibly over looked for the transfer of insect virus into the UK which possibly could infect our honeybee population?

Bio Security totally ignored as the bees imported are an "endemic" species and there fore are not classed as exotic and not screened?

**** I am sure that Admin and his Mods would be quick to remove any posts that could be deemed to be libelous from this forum.

Yeghes da

 

[B+.]

Bio Security totally ignored as the bees imported are an "endemic" species and there fore are not classed as exotic and not screened?

This is not correct.
Importation of ANY live creature requires a health certificate and is tracked through the TRACES system.
Bumblebees are included in that.

 

[Finman]

I wonder if the "manufacturers" of the incredible number of colonies of imported bumble bees used in the polly tunnel fruit and veg industry use AI....
10s of thousands of bumbles imported annually which is one vector possibly over looked for the transfer of insect virus into the UK which possibly could infect our honeybee population?

Bio Security totally ignored as the bees imported are an "endemic" species and there fore are not classed as exotic and not screened?

**** I am sure that Admin and his Mods would be quick to remove any posts that could be deemed to be libelous from this forum.

Yeghes da

That law book. What does it say...

Yeah. And only native German Black Bees are allowed.
.

 

[Finman]

This is not correct.
Importation of ANY live creature requires a health certificate and is tracked through the TRACES system.
Bumblebees are included in that.

Like migrating birds and fishes. Migrating bumbble bees from Europe.... Shoot them...

.

 

[For want of a better word]

This is not correct.
Importation of ANY live creature requires a health certificate and is tracked through the TRACES system.
Bumblebees are included in that.

Hence the question mark!

What are they checked for???

I know that Penguins get checked for flu and Norfolk disease ( was on the telly! Australia to Germany)
Possibly EU legislation has changed our importation laws??
Whatever transparency does not seem to be the buzz word.

Yeghes da