I'm a lapsed BIBBA member, got fed up with them spending years trying to ducument where about they could be certain Amm were, when a lot of Scottish beekeepers got fed up with telling them. Then seemingly very little going on on the way of increasing the numbers of them
I'm thinking of joining them again, but they need to sort out comunication between members, especially those with queens/nucs and those who want to get more hands on involvement. Hence the need for this forum.
I got fed up like PH has of trying to scource Amm in this country. I've gone for the second best (to me anyway) of obtaining Amm queens from Bickerstaffes, and I have to say I'm very pleased with the way the colonies are performing that are headed by them, only time will tell wether they are Amm, I will be checking the morphometry out once I'm certain all bees in the colony are offspring of the Amm queens
And yes before all the nay sayers start going on about morphometry proving nothing....it satisfies my idle curiousity and may warrant further investigation
of the colonies to find out for definate.