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Queen Bee
This month the 'headline' article relates to Queen Rearing.
The front page states "in this issue of BBKA News we begin a series of articles that wil guide you through the process in a step-by-step manner."
In that article one finds:-
I wonder if anyone else finds this a strange and unsupported opinion.
And also whether anyone else thinks that the BBKA News editorial policy seems of late to be to give a platform to those with colourful opinions, rather than clearly distinguishing between fact and ... opinion.
The front page states "in this issue of BBKA News we begin a series of articles that wil guide you through the process in a step-by-step manner."
In that article one finds:-
The emphasis is mine.The use of mini mating nucs is very economical on bees as relatively few are needed for each small colony. The most commonly used, Apidea, or similar size hives, require only about a mug of bees. The queens mated in mini-hives are often superceded later in the same season.
Better queens are produced in the larger mating nucleus hives. ... {using full size frames} ...The queens, mated from these larger nucleus hives, can take a little longer to mate and longer to start laying, but invariably such queens will turn out to be much better mated and longer lived.
I wonder if anyone else finds this a strange and unsupported opinion.
And also whether anyone else thinks that the BBKA News editorial policy seems of late to be to give a platform to those with colourful opinions, rather than clearly distinguishing between fact and ... opinion.