We delivered 4 colonies of mine to the association apiary on Sunday morning.
We now have 8 there which will produce the right sort of drones (AMM) for the breeding programme.
Last year the...
I would never let a colony like that produce a queen although like you say the drones could be fine if it is an F1 cross.
Unless I was very sure about the queen heading the colony I would not let it...
It is so strikingly intermediate that it may be the first cross. In that case your colony could be producing Amm drones (if the mother was Amm) and a cross to a virgin from a purer stock might work...
The simple answer to that is yes. Alison Benjamin's articles in the Guardian are riddled with inaccuracy. I haven't read her book.
She has a tabloid approach to writing about honeybees.
Wraith. That plot is almost certainly a hybrid between AMM and carnica as the plot is intermediate between the two.
I plotted two sets of wings. one from one of my Amm colonies and a Carnica colony...
The box shown in the email address is actually designed to take the parafinalia used by aeromoddelers for starting and running model aircraft.Carries spare fuel,starters,spare propellors etc.
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We delivered 4 colonies of mine to the association apiary on Sunday morning. We now have 8 there which will produce the right sort of drones (AMM) for the breeding programme. Last year the...
03-05-2012 10:14 AM