Waiting for mating.....

[For want of a better word]

To judge a queen's state of deflowering by the size of her attending throng isn't science but based on sorcery
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There has been a lot of that sort of thing going on on Exmoor of late... if you believe the Papers!!!!

Yeghes da

 

[Nige.Coll]

Judging by the amount of people opening hives and finding no bees at home some of the smaller swarms with mated queens are probably ones that have absconded.

Quite a few have had smaller colonies come through winter and are confusing nosema driven supercedure with swarming.
Not sure about the rest of the country but here nosema has been far more common this year.

 

[TryingToLetThemBee]

How many times do people need to read that these early queens are a mating lottery, before it actually sinks in? Not thinking and sticking one's head in the sand will make no difference. Think why so many queens are imported from afar, from warmer climates. It is really simple.

If they make you A/S them, there's not a lot of choice. My lot that did that can take their chances with mating the new Q; as my swarmiest strain, this year may be the end of the line anyway, although they do show some signs of being productive so they still have a chance.

 

[Amari]

Judging by the amount of people opening hives and finding no bees at home some of the smaller swarms with mated queens are probably ones that have absconded.

Quite a few have had smaller colonies come through winter and are confusing nosema driven supercedure with swarming.
Not sure about the rest of the country but here nosema has been far more common this year.

Where is 'here'?

 

[Hivemaker.]

Just helped one AMM unmated queen mate, drone layer, inseminated her with semen from her own drones.

 

[Erichalfbee]

Prime and cast
I have always understood a Prime to be headed by a mated queen and a cast by one of the daughters emerged from a QC she left behind.
Perhaps afterswarm might be more descriptive.

Just helped one AMM unmated queen mate, drone layer, inseminated her with semen from her own drones.

Good job this isn't the beginners' section

 

[B+.]

Just helped one AMM unmated queen mate, drone layer, inseminated her with semen from her own drones.

Why are you inbreeding? Can't you get pipettes of amm semen from unrelated drones?

 

[Hivemaker.]

Why are you inbreeding? Can't you get pipettes of amm semen from unrelated drones?

I have unrelated AMM drones, but i did not wish to use them, i wanted her inseminated with her own drones.

 

[B+.]

I have unrelated AMM drones, but i did not wish to use them, i wanted her inseminated with her own drones.

do tell....

 

[Amari]

Just helped one AMM unmated queen mate, drone layer, inseminated her with semen from her own drones.

Incest!

 

[For want of a better word]

Incest!

Not uncommon on some remote Scottish islands I have been told

Yeghes da

 

[TryingToLetThemBee]

Just helped one AMM unmated queen mate, drone layer, inseminated her with semen from her own drones.

Doesn't that give diploid drones?

 

[Erichalfbee]

It would.I don't know what proportion though as my genetics knowledge is very rusty. Good stuff this! I didn't know that you could inseminate a virgin queen months after she emerged or that you could get the colony to raise diploid drones rather than eating them.

 

[TryingToLetThemBee]

By the way; a massive window opens next week it seems.

 

[Jimmys Mum]

You are not wrong......, BBC weather are saying 23 degrees here on Wednesday!
Almost Pimms weather

 

[Obee1]

Just helped one AMM unmated queen mate, drone layer, inseminated her with semen from her own drones.

Why would you choose to do that?

 

[Hivemaker.]

Why would you choose to do that?

Preservation.

 

[B+.]

Preservation.

Are you back-crossing to "purify" the amm?

 

[mbc]

I cannot imagine she'd last long in a colony so my best guess is hivemaker's going to quickly raise a bunch of daughters off her as drone mothers for the next generation, fascinating stuff whatever, how do you trick her into laying unfertilised eggs to begin with? Co2 ?

 

[TryingToLetThemBee]

Dang! They keep racking up the forecast temp. There's always a hot week in May. (Edited). Out of my depth re Pete and his "GMO"...