Black Bees - A.M.M. WANTED

[Castor]

I need black bees. I want to bolster the AMM or near AMM genome in my neck of the woods - darkest Gloucestershire.....

I wish to buy some queens of known good provenance.

What I am getting when I ask around is a whole shedload of negativity and yes I already have dark-ish bees and yes we have already flooding the area with as many dark-ish drones as we can muster.....

So, team, your thoughts please?

 

[einsteinagogo]

I need black bees. I want to bolster the AMM or near AMM genome in my neck of the woods - darkest Gloucestershire.....

I wish to buy some queens of known good provenance.

What I am getting when I ask around is a whole shedload of negativity and yes I already have dark-ish bees and yes we have already flooding the area with as many dark-ish drones as we can muster.....

So, team, your thoughts please?

PM sent

 

[Hawklord]

I think you're being racist.

 

[Castor]

Bees vote UKIP!!!

 

[madasafish]

Bees vote UKIP!!!

I thought bees has social skills and hive intelligence... Obviously not

 

[jill bee]

Black Bees

Perhaps you should look on BIBBA
it is a interesting web site and would put you in touch with
fellow Bee improvement and conservationists.
i'm guessing you know about this anyhow.

 

[Castor]

Thanks Jill,

I joined up to BIBBA and wrote multiple emails to many of their officers asking for help in locating local like minded souls.

I got not one reply. Nothing.
I got the distinct impression it was a closed shop and gave up - life's too short!

 

[beebopalula]

Thanks Jill,

I joined up to BIBBA and wrote multiple emails to many of their officers asking for help in locating local like minded souls.

I got not one reply. Nothing.
I got the distinct impression it was a closed shop and gave up - life's too short!

A couple of years ago I emailed them to ask about AMM,s in my area. A year later, I got a reply asking if I was still interested- I said I was. A few months later they replied to me to ask if I knew of AMM's in my area!

 

[Teemore]

PM sent with a few pointers..

 

[Little John]

Thanks Jill,

I joined up to BIBBA and wrote multiple emails to many of their officers asking for help in locating local like minded souls.

I got not one reply. Nothing.
I got the distinct impression it was a closed shop and gave up - life's too short!

I did better than you then - got one reply advising me to breed from my existing black-ish bees which (as I told 'em) have some of the worst traits I've ever come across. Great - so how long is that going to take - 15, maybe 20 years ?
BIBBA really need to get their act together, if they want to be more than just a talking shop.

LJ

 

[clv101]

Who's going to the 2014 BIBBA and SICAMM joint conference?
Looks pretty good: http://www.bibba.com/conference_2014.php

 

[hedgerow pete]

there are several bee groups in Germany that breed a version of AMM and there have been rumours of far flung Scottish isle breeders also having a version of AMM
yes they are still about and yes they are good bees but there are many better sorts of bees better suited to beekeeping.

it is also a good enough reason to pop out and burn any carni bee based hives as the cross breeds are deadly

 

[Stiffy]

Always makes me laugh, I guess things move slowly with BIBBA !!

http://www.bibba.com/local_queens.php
'This page will be frequently updated. Please return regularly'

Written... 29 September 2009, Updated... 07 October 2009

 

[mbc]

Who's going to the 2014 BIBBA and SICAMM joint conference?
Looks pretty good: http://www.bibba.com/conference_2014.php

me

 

[beebopalula]

Who's going to the 2014 BIBBA and SICAMM joint conference?
Looks pretty good: http://www.bibba.com/conference_2014.php

I was interested at first and considered it, but thought I may have to sit there for a year waiting for someone from BIBBA to turn up and then they would ask me where to obtain AMM's.

 

[mbc]

I was interested at first and considered it, but thought I may have to sit there for a year waiting for someone from BIBBA to turn up and then they would ask me where to obtain AMM's.

Hilarious! haha
I'm sure if you want everything at a click of a mouse it would be much easier to source some imported queens from someone more attuned to turning a profit than breeding bees, but if you have retained the gift of personal communication you might be more rewarded by talking to someone who actually breeds some bees.

 

[pargyle]

me

Some interesting speakers on that list ... sadly it's just too far for me to consider it ... I will be interested to see what the speakers topics are once they get round to publishing an agenda ... I see Kate Thompson is on the list - her work on Feral Colonies is of interest, I wonder if she's ready to publish her later paper yet ?

 

[mbc]

Some interesting speakers on that list ... sadly it's just too far for me to consider it ...

I'm staying the Saturday night, I'll gladly share a wee dram or two with you if you reconsider........

 

[Ross]

These are quite a long way from you down at the end of Cornwall, but they have been breeding "Cornish Black" AMM for years.

http://honeymountain.co.uk/nuclei.htm

There are now a couple of hives of them at Paington Zoo, with more to go in at The Eden Project and the Lost Gardens of Heligan there is a bit of a project to try and boost black bees in Cornwall at the moment.

Ross

 

[MartinL]

. . . . .they have been breeding "Cornish Black" AMM for years.

There are now a couple of hives of them at Paington Zoo, with more to go in at The Eden Project and the Lost Gardens of Heligan there is a bit of a project to try and boost black bees in Cornwall at the moment.

Ross

Is that to go with their new "curtural" status?