Micro queen rearing

[For want of a better word]

Rare royal families in honeybees, Apis mellifera....2005
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00114-005-0025-6#page-1

Showed only certain selected lines where chosen to become queen's.
Perhaps grafting is not the way to go? as forcing unwanted queens to be made

Queens not Queen's !

Try a *Hopkins' board.... allow the bees to select which eggs they select to be queens.

Or is it Hopkin's ie the board that Mr Hopkin invented or is it Hopkins' as in the board the Hopkins invented... perhaps it is Hopkins's board......

Snow day... jack knifed lorries blocking all roads and rescue vehicles can not get thru due to abandoned cars........... and house full of teenagers who can not get home.... and they have now found my Hurdy -Gurdy and drum kit!

 

[Poly Hive]

Just read through the Vorstman piece and I can agree with most of it apart from deriding the mini nucs.

Many beekeepers have produced thousands of queens per year using them so why was it such a blocker for him I wonder?

I remember marvelling at the line of mini nucs on the boundary wall at the Institute at Marburg dozens of them. The next door neighbour? The local primary school.

See how far you get with that in the UK?

PH

 

[Murox]

Queens not Queen's !

Try a *Hopkins' board.... allow the bees to select which eggs they select to be queens.-----------------

Now I never knew that method had a name, and my Grandfather taught me that when I was a boy. Isn't it great to keep on learning! thanks for that.

 

[Beefriendly]

Queens not Queen's !

Grammatically Queen's is correct...unless it's a name like Queens Park etc.
But what type of twat tries to score "points" for pointing out grammatical errors in a bee forum?

 

[For want of a better word]

Grammatically Queen's is correct...unless it's a name like Queens Park etc.
But what type of twat tries to score "points" for pointing out grammatical errors in a bee forum?

Pedants like Beefriendly ... obviously !!

Plural of Queen is Queens... no apostrophe required!

Had grammar rammed down out throats in my East End slum clearance secondary school... Headmaster ( Ex Borstal) said "you may be scruffy and will never come to anything... but at least we will learn you to speak propper English!"

 

[Beefriendly]

Headmaster ( Ex Borstal) said "you may be scruffy and will never come to anything...

Looks like he got that part right.....

 

[For want of a better word]

Looks like he got that part right.....

Making assumptions again!

 

[mbc]

Looks like he got that part right.....

If Cheers is the fellow I'm thinking of I met in llangollen a year or two ago he's actually quite dapper

 

[Goran]

One beekeeper use induced supercedure cells, interesting and accidentally I had few such - by installing empty frame in center of a brood. You can get few, but have to remove them 10th-12 day or they will be destroyed. I simply lift the frame with it in super and add one-two frames of open brood along ( of course without queen)..
It is really interesting and simple but didn't dig in deeper to compare and evaluate right. This year if I manage to reduce colony numbers will have more time to try it again by intention..

 

[jenkinsbrynmair]

Rare royal families in honeybees, Apis mellifera....2005
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00114-005-0025-6#page-1

Showed only certain selected lines where chosen to become queen's.
Perhaps grafting is not the way to go? as forcing unwanted queens to be made

It does open up room for debate

 

[Beefriendly]

It does open up room for debate

It does indeed. It was only studied under the "emergency response" and with Italian bees.

 

[Beefriendly]

If Cheers is the fellow I'm thinking of I met in llangollen a year or two ago he's actually quite dapper

I don't think "dapper" is the "word" I'd use to describe him....assuming him is a him and not a her as he once was previously on this list.

 

[jenkinsbrynmair]

It does indeed. It was only studied under the "emergency response" and with Italian bees.

And we all know how Italians respond in an emergency

 

[Funny honey]

Queens not Queen's !

Try a *Hopkins' board.... allow the bees to select which eggs they select to be queens.

Or is it Hopkin's ie the board that Mr Hopkin invented or is it Hopkins' as in the board the Hopkins invented... perhaps it is Hopkins's board......

Snow day... jack knifed lorries blocking all roads and rescue vehicles can not get thru due to abandoned cars........... and house full of teenagers who can not get home.... and they have now found my Hurdy -Gurdy and drum kit!

Funny really I’m in st Mawes clear blue sky with sun no snow at all. yesterday it didn’t even really set yet st Austell got it bad

 

[For want of a better word]

Funny really I’m in st Mawes clear blue sky with sun no snow at all. yesterday it didn’t even really set yet st Austell got it bad

.... And some nere - do - wells dispute our micro~climates here in Cornwall!