And another thing......

[Calum]

Hi Calum, do have any evidence to back this up, I only ask as I look after both black and buckfast and Italian's, I've found it more to do with how clumsy the beekeeper is, and the weather to how their temper is, the temper of the bees has not gotten any worse with subsequent generations, I do keep hearing it will from other keepers but when I ask them if how they know this it's always third party information.
Thanks Dave

Hi Dave, I have certainly met some awfuly aggressive mongrels here. From generation to generation the components of the buckfast will alter and this can leand to extremes. Especially where they are in an area where 95% of the other bees are carnica. In our "county" there are 1200 colonies, and most of the beeleepers breed their queens on site - unfortunatley not making use of the isolated queen mating site nearby.
That being said, I have some colonies of Carnica (lovely looking queen) bees with orange - red rings that are very nice to work with.

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Calum