Clipping and marking queens

[Erichalfbee]

Oh dear... I would mark some hundred workers too

Ha, you might joke.
I regularly get drones marked in all colours in my hives. I wish the nearby teaching apiary would stop letting them go.

 

[Finman]

Ha, you might joke.
I regularly get drones marked in all colours in my hives. I wish the nearby teaching apiary would stop letting them go.

My professional beek friend has marked drones, and noticed that drones change easily home hive. It is bad thing when we talk about mite counting. Mites ride often with drones.
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[For want of a better word]

sorry Oliver, you were right and I was wrong. In future I need to analysis my posts more.

Don't beat yourself up about it KP.... keep posting!

Nos da

 

[Finman]

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All who has over 10 000 writings in this forum, are automatically right. And others get automatically excuses if/when they are automatically wrong.
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[Brian Bush]

Ha, you might joke.
I regularly get drones marked in all colours in my hives. I wish the nearby teaching apiary would stop letting them go.

I had a group of newbees in the club apiary. We were checking the hives. The records showed a marked queen present. There was no eggs or brood visible. The newbees spotted the 'queen'!!! clearly marked drone. The previous week's group had been queen marking under the supervision of an 'experienced' member!
Enough said. If you practice on drones, kill them!!!

 

[Quis Custodiet]

Ha, you might joke.
I regularly get drones marked in all colours in my hives. I wish the nearby teaching apiary would stop letting them go.

An enterprising gentleman here, in receipt of various government grants, imported Italian bees on a grande scale. One of their more notable characteristics was their tendency to literally appear in any hive, they had but little concept of home.
I wonder what sub species Huber used in his book hive ? Probably Carniolans.

 

[Honeybeeco]

My professional beek friend has marked drones, and noticed that drones change easily home hive. It is bad thing when we talk about mite counting. Mites ride often with drones.
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I agree Finman.

We mark our drones unique hive colors every so often, to see which drone is going where. It's quite interesting that not only do they drift to different hives within in the same apiary but also drift to different apiary's in the locality.

Interesting when it comes to think about neighbouring hive owners and yours/their varroa husbandry.

 

[For want of a better word]

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All who has over 10 000 writings in this forum, are automatically right. And others get automatically excuses if/when they are automatically wrong.
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So your first 10,000 postings were all wrong and the remaining 6,098 perfectly correct?

Yeghes da

 

[Finman]

So your first 10,000 postings were all wrong and the remaining 6,098 perfectly correct?

Yeghes da

Perfectly