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Offline Jen

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Re: First cut out
« Reply #40 on: March 21, 2014, 12:33:28 am »
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Re: First cut out
« Reply #41 on: March 21, 2014, 11:02:34 am »
I`ve got a question about my cutout bees. My bees seem to be on the small side. About half are black butted with little or no rings at all. I have not seen the queen, but all the drones are completely black butted with no rings. Are these feral bees completely or escapees or a cross of the two??? Just wondering. Thanks. Harper
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Re: First cut out
« Reply #42 on: March 21, 2014, 12:00:56 pm »
Do you mean the entire abdomen is black? or the bottom half of the abdomen is black? Cause we have a bee here that looks like this. But it's a very week bee in that it may fly to our hive, and then die.


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Re: First cut out
« Reply #43 on: March 21, 2014, 12:33:46 pm »
The entire abdomen is black.
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Re: First cut out
« Reply #44 on: March 21, 2014, 07:25:08 pm »
I would suspect a dark queen because of the drones and the striped workers are because of the drones she has mated with. There are labs that will analyze the genetics of workers and give you the race results. 
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Re: First cut out
« Reply #45 on: March 21, 2014, 10:03:47 pm »
Thanks Apis and Jen.
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