Maud bees

[The Drone Ranger]

Good little video must have been before sound though

[gavin]

Good little video must have been before sound though

I dunno - thought that I heard mains hum and some white noise.

[The Drone Ranger]

I dunno - thought that I heard mains hum and some white noise.

I though that was the old camera noise like chaplain films

This is a modern mini cine camera
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Mobius-Pocke...+action+camera

[drumgerry]

Aren't the Maud bees a strain of AMM that was developed by Bernard Mobus? And if so they post-date that video by some decades? I'd like to know more about their history as well.

[Jon]

My guess is that Mobus worked with what he found there and improved it.
I doubt he brought bees with him from elsewhere as that ol' Bibba reluctance to move queens from one area to another goes back to the Beo Cooper era.
I would be curious to know if the descendents of those abeilles vivantes were in the mix.
They were AMM so probably acclimatised reasonably well.

[The Drone Ranger]

My guess is that Mobus worked with what he found there and improved it.
I doubt he brought bees with him from elsewhere as that ol' Bibba reluctance to move queens from one area to another goes back to the Beo Cooper era.
I would be curious to know if the descendents of those abeilles vivantes were in the mix.
They were AMM so probably acclimatised reasonably well.

Hi Jon
When was B Mobus developing this strain of bees and where
Was wing scanning part of the selection at the time ?

[Jon]

Wing scanning would not distinguish a French AMM from a Scottish or Irish one.
Some types of DNA analysis would
Wing morphometry goes way back.
They used to project slides of mounted wings onto a wall and measure the angles with a thing called the 'bibba fan'.
I jest you not as Frankie Howard used to say!

Mobus was more or less mid 60s to late 80s I think.
Scotland was his territory, Craibstone area I think.
I own one book of his, Mating in miniature.