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Offline Yankee11

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Gettin there.
« on: March 31, 2016, 11:01:50 pm »
Getting better with quality, need to work on quantity.

These cups have much more royal jelly packed in the cups,


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« Reply #1 on: April 01, 2016, 12:16:46 am »
Wow! I haven't seen this before.... Very Cool!
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« Reply #2 on: April 01, 2016, 01:23:00 pm »
Hey Yank, are those mutt queens? i have 4 Russian queens coming from a Ark. breeder? the last of may, a club member is going to drive down and there's and mine. Can't recall the breeders name.? Jack
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« Reply #3 on: April 01, 2016, 08:57:56 pm »
Yea, the're mutt bees but from a very good hive,

All of my hives are from swarms or cutout/trap outs.

I wonder who it is that is breeding Russians.

I just don't understand how someone can say they have a certain bee when they queen flies out and mates in the wild. I understand flooding the yards with certain drones etc, But how do you know for sure, Unless you have a lab and artificial inseminate.

I've even heard that queens will fly a long way away from the yard she came from just to mate with drones far away.
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« Reply #4 on: April 02, 2016, 09:54:17 am »
Nice looking queen cells Yankee.  All honeybees in the US are mutts. I think we buy pure breeder queens from other countries but when they go out and mate with other bees in the US They aren’t pure Russians or Carolinian. Is a Chevy or ford product American No they are world products. Bees are mutts.
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« Reply #5 on: April 02, 2016, 11:14:26 am »
A lady from Texas was at our last bee club meeting, She claimed to be treatment free, that all her bees are gentle, and does not keep bees for honey and most all her bees come through there winters.I ask if she was in a AHB area and she said very much so (she raises her own queens) i ask how she kept her virgin queens from  AHB drones, and she said she floods her yards with her drones and has never had a problem with AHB? She gave a good talk and seemed to be very knowledgeable, She was in our area looking for land to put bees on. Jack
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Re: Gettin there.
« Reply #6 on: April 02, 2016, 01:32:06 pm »
Did she mention why she keeps bees? ???
Not for honey?
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« Reply #7 on: April 02, 2016, 08:45:17 pm »
Thank you Perry..  That was the question that popped into my mind.   From AHB area, (Very much so) so I immediately assumed she was not shipping queens about the country, but then when she said no honey I started scratching my head....
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