Arista

[Erichalfbee]

Interesting article here
https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2019/07/breeders-toughen-bees-resist-deadly-mites

 

[maz0]

Interesting article here
https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2019/07/breeders-toughen-bees-resist-deadly-mites

Interesting, wonder if the organisation who has the breakthrough will patent the genetic modification for varroa resistance and control it as heavily as the likes of Monsanto and their patented genetically modified seeds...that would be my worry...imagine all those queens they would sell every year on a licensing agreement, use of offspring without license prohibited...

 

[Anduril]

This is also interesting and a reason why we shouldn't be treatment free, fortunately or unfortunately, depending on your viewpoint. Could we as beekeepers, become pariahs? It would be nice to have resistant honeybees, but it comes at a cost to other pollinators.

https://www.iflscience.com/plants-a...nfections-to-wild-bumblebees-through-flowers/

 

[Murox]

Both articles - great reads and thought provoking. thank you.

 

[Erichalfbee]

This is also interesting and a reason why we shouldn't be treatment free, fortunately or unfortunately, depending on your viewpoint. Could we as beekeepers, become pariahs? It would be nice to have resistant honeybees, but it comes at a cost to other pollinators.

https://www.iflscience.com/plants-a...nfections-to-wild-bumblebees-through-flowers/

Thanks. Good read

 

[B+.]

Interesting article here
https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2019/07/breeders-toughen-bees-resist-deadly-mites

I would suggest that this thread should be moved to the Queen Breeding and Rearing section as it has nothing to do with Amm.

BartJan Fernhout works mainly with Buckfast but there is a carnica group too (I work quite closely with Tieme Wanders (Bee Management breeding project) and Pim Brascamp (Scientific Committee) who are also members of the Dutch BeeBreed group (www.beebreed.nl)). There is a video of BartJan Fernhout (with English subtitles) on the Arista site (https://aristabeeresearch.org/ ).

 

[MartinL]

use of offspring without license prohibited...

Advertised sale with genetic provenance perhaps, but otherwise?

How will they know??

 

[B+.]

Advertised sale with genetic provenance perhaps, but otherwise?

How will they know??

It's more a matter of the provenance of each queen is recorded in the BeeBreed database along with the type of mating and the mating place.
If you chose to produce open mated daughters in an uncontrolled environment, the expression of the traits would be diluted. In any case, they wouldn't be much use for producing queens although their drones would still have value in the first generation