Gavin surely if you need a sample of 50 bees to check if they are AMM that must be nearly half the colonyOriginally Posted by gavin
Gavin surely if you need a sample of 50 bees to check if they are AMM that must be nearly half the colony
Ha ha!
Non prolific bees is the way to go but perhaps not quite that mean with the brood rearing!
Nice one DR but you would be suprised what some people send you for Drawwing. It has been known to find the odd queen in the sample.
All this talk of queens in wing samples reminds me that I forgot to check that I didn't have the queen in two samples I took recently! Ooops.
However there were a gazillion bees in those colonies so the 50 were about one in ... oh ... a fiftieth of a gazillion so I should have missed her.
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just look at her beauty
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Hi Keith. I have loads just as pretty as that one.
Found another two laying in apideas today.
Keith
that's a fantastic pic
C'mon then Jon get the camera out and lets see what you've got
Ok. will get a few pics. I have 19 native queens mated so far this year and about another 30 virgins still in apideas.
I saw keith's pics on beekeeping forum and he has a lot of apideas on the go as well.
The one I am grafting from is a daughter of a Galtee queen.
This lot were due to start laying today.
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