View Poll Results: Are You raising your own queens if so-

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  • I raise my own queens and they are AMM

    5 17.86%
  • I raise my own queens and they are AMM(ish)

    10 35.71%
  • I raise my own queens and the are carniolan

    1 3.57%
  • I raise my own queens and they are caniolan(ish)

    2 7.14%
  • I raise my own queens and they are buckfast

    2 7.14%
  • I raise my own queens and they are Buckfast(ish)

    4 14.29%
  • I raise my own queens and they are Italian

    1 3.57%
  • I raise my own queens and they are italian(ish)

    0 0%
  • I raise my own queens and they are hybrid/allsorts

    12 42.86%
  • I raise my own queens as part of a breeding group

    4 14.29%
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    Quote Originally Posted by Pete L View Post
    Mike Palmer helps to answer this question in his talks on the sustainable apairy.
    Indeed, but I don't think even he really gets to the bottom of the psychology behind a person's refusal to learn from repeated failures.

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    Einstein has the answer to this … "Only two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.". This is something he did say, in contrast to "If the bee disappears from the surface of the earth, man would have no more than four years to live", which he didn't say.

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    Quote Originally Posted by prakel View Post
    Indeed, but I don't think even he really gets to the bottom of the psychology behind a person's refusal to learn from repeated failures.
    If your mistakes are repeatedly subsidised by the taxpayer I guess there is less of an incentive to learn from them.

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    But even then, they're still footing a hefty financial outlay even with the government top ups.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Jon View Post
    If your mistakes are repeatedly subsidised by the taxpayer I guess there is less of an incentive to learn from them.
    ... and also a greater chance that you will still be in beekeeping to keep making them.

    Caveat: in Scotland there is training associated with the latest subsidy and other measures to improve standards. Since the (re-)discovery of EFB in 2009 there have been improvements in beekeeping standards, and I guess that the hope of the SG was that they could extend that after rescuing some enterprises from a precarious position earlier this year. Also, I really don't know what proportion of last year's imports remained as Italian stock, and although I understand that there are likely to be a lot of Italian imports coming into the UK in 2014 (as well as others) I don't know where they are likely to end up.

    Not just Italian honeybee genetics of course, but also Italian honeybee pathogens, in quantity. There's another repeated mistake.

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    Quote Originally Posted by The Drone Ranger View Post
    Hi readers
    Getting near the closing date for the poll
    Can there really only be 26 people who have raised their own queens ?
    The SBA has around 1500 ? members and that/s a lot of queen bees
    It's a quiet time for beekeeping so I suspect that some beekeepers switch off for the winter?

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    I can't remember how to create a poll
    Is anyone interested in running this one again to see if anything has changed ?

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