Honey Makers

[DanBee]

Can always forget honey and employ bees detecting explosives?
VM

You think you've got problems securing apiaries? I know somebody there who swore by tank traps to avoid accidental flattenings...

 

[Skyhook]

Local swarms of nasty black bxxxds I collected April/May did okay.........

They would be Carniolians... pretty black bees with a pretty black moody temperament to match !

Sounds more like a description of Amm. Carniolans tend to be tabby-coloured, with grey stripes; and although they have a reputaion for being swarmy, I've never heard of them as being particularly bad-tempered.

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[For want of a better word]

Sounds more like a description of Amm. Carniolans tend to be tabby-coloured, with grey stripes; and although they have a reputaion for being swarmy, I've never heard of them as being particularly bad-tempered.

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You should meet my ?pure bred Carniolians....... who needs tank traps !

 

[DanBee]

Sounds more like a description of Amm. Carniolans tend to be tabby-coloured, with grey stripes; and although they have a reputaion for being swarmy, I've never heard of them as being particularly bad-tempered.

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[Tdf]

you wont get an unbiased view from anyone on here imho. i think amms are best over here(proper ones not black mongrels)

 

[DanBee]

you wont get an unbiased view from anyone on here imho.

Probably right, it sounds more like football fans talking up/down various teams

What is often overlooked as various strains/races are championed/denigrated, is that most rigorous breeding programmes have produced docile, productive, healthy bees regardless of what genetic stock they have started with. The potential for improvement is there in most (all?) races, yet the characteristics we select for are generally far more important to the beekeeper than the bee, hence they will quickly revert to baseline in the absence of continued selection.

 

[Poly Hive]

I have known some vicious AMM. Pluscarden Abbey comes to mind as having some notorious bees in their time. I have handled some extremely quiet AMM too, and sold some to Pluscarden

It's the breeding that counts.

PH

 

[DanBee]

It's the breeding that counts.

Indeed. That's why one only buys sugar for one's bees from Waitrose

 

[For want of a better word]

Finest Jamaican cane sugar mixed with purest bottled still spring water from the Malvern hills, lovingly bottled in purest Belgium glass and hand labelled by dusky maidens... all available only from M&S

Would you feed Amms with anything inferior ?

 

[Stiffy]

Finest Jamaican cane sugar mixed with purest bottled still spring water from the Malvern hills, lovingly bottled in purest Belgium glass and hand labelled by dusky maidens... all available only from M&S

Would you feed Amms with anything inferior ?

Yep, a better queen
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[For want of a better word]

Finest Jamaican cane sugar mixed with purest bottled still spring water from the Malvern hills, lovingly bottled in purest Belgium glass and hand labelled by dusky maidens... all available only from M&S

Would you feed Amms with anything inferior ?

For Stifly... M&S is a posh grocery store... I don't think there are any in Kernow... too down market for them !

Off to Exeter ( Devon) now to look for serviette rings at the new John Lewis Partnership store !