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New bees
« on: May 17, 2014, 05:06:46 pm »
I re-queened one of my hives early last month.  All bees we've had so far pretty much all look the same.  This is what the new queen is producing.  Pretty caramel color.  I've never seen ones like this. The one on the lid is like all the others. 


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Re: New bees
« Reply #1 on: May 18, 2014, 05:29:33 am »
 :photos:

Nice pic.
I don't see that many really light coloured bees up here.
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Re: New bees
« Reply #2 on: May 18, 2014, 05:59:47 am »
Interesting color.  Mine are all classic black and yellow with some having solid black bottoms.
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Re: New bees
« Reply #3 on: May 18, 2014, 07:25:49 am »
Everything we've had has been as Blueblood described.  First few we saw kind of scared us.  Wasn't sure what to think.  After doing an inspection we noticed that they were the new brood.  Saw one coming out of a cell.  They are unique. 
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Re: New bees
« Reply #4 on: May 18, 2014, 08:32:37 am »
"Frankenbees" ;)
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Re: New bees
« Reply #5 on: May 18, 2014, 09:55:42 am »
Quote from: blueblood on May 18, 2014, 08:32:37 am
"Frankenbees" ;)

Actually that is about what I thought when I seen the first one  :laugh:
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Re: New bees
« Reply #6 on: May 18, 2014, 01:17:30 pm »
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Re: New bees
« Reply #7 on: May 18, 2014, 07:13:29 pm »
wow, maybe theres some cordovan in the gene pool?
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Re: New bees
« Reply #8 on: May 18, 2014, 07:27:48 pm »
Quote from: LazyBkpr on May 18, 2014, 07:13:29 pm
wow, maybe theres some cordovan in the gene pool?

I think you may be right.  Looked at the queens and workers in the two pictures here and they sure look like it.  Thanks

http://beeinformed.org/2012/04/queen-bee-identification/
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Re: New bees
« Reply #9 on: May 19, 2014, 12:40:45 pm »
was thinking the same as lazy, cordovan....

where did you get your queen fin?
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Re: New bees
« Reply #10 on: May 19, 2014, 03:53:54 pm »
Quote from: riverbee on May 19, 2014, 12:40:45 pm
was thinking the same as lazy, cordovan....

where did you get your queen fin?

http://www.abhoneyfarm.com/   -  NW Indiana.   Real nice people to deal with.
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Re: New bees
« Reply #11 on: May 19, 2014, 04:23:56 pm »
thanks fin!
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