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This colony is headed by a black queen mated mid July 2010 but at least 50% of her offspring show yellow banding, probably from Buckfast crosses.
The queen was one I took in an Apidea to an apiary with Galtee drones but she obviously strayed into bad company. There are two apiaries close by with Buckfast bees.
I haven't done morphometry on this one so it might be interesting to take a sample as I am sure the % AMM is low.
A queen like this can still produce perfectly good AMM type drones as her own drones will not be influenced by the yellow drones she crossed with.
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