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GENERAL BEEKEEPING - MAIN POSTING FORUM. / Re: Tiger Queens

« Last post by max2 on October 08, 2024, 05:58:36 pm »

" They put up a lot of honey, they manage their mites well, and the bees are very docile and easy to work"

I may put in an extra effort and breed a few more queens from this hive.
The " manage mites well" will be important in the future.
Most of my hives are Italian and look Italian. I did introduce some Caucasian queens a very long time ago and I can tell their influence as soon as I open a hive - a lot more propolis.
One of my yards is fairly isolated and I have enough drones to flood the area.
If I was younger I would shift some of these hives into a more remote area.

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THE 2ND AMENDMENT / Re: Harris blasted for owning unsafe gun

« Last post by Terri Yaki on October 08, 2024, 02:28:07 pm »

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THE 2ND AMENDMENT / Harris blasted for owning unsafe gun

« Last post by Salvo on October 08, 2024, 02:23:25 pm »

Hi Folks,

If it were not for double standards,... *liberals* would have no standards at all.

Vice President Kamala Harris was happy to remind voters that she owns a gun, but the more they learn about her firearms, the more they ask why she appears to support a double standard for gun owners.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/harris-blasted-for-owning-gun-classified-as-unsafe-weapon-in-california/ar-AA1rUiqN?ocid=msedgdhp&pc=U531&cvid=91a368fc36f249fea1de0e3e06b2329c&ei=14

Sal

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GENERAL BEEKEEPING - MAIN POSTING FORUM. / Re: Tiger Queens

« Last post by The15thMember on October 08, 2024, 12:35:19 pm »

I have several tiger-striped queens right now, and I haven't found any particular correlation between their color and their productivity or lifespan.  The one colony has a queen where the worker bees are mostly dark, and that colony does seem to exhibit really nice traits.  They put up a lot of honey, they manage their mites well, and the bees are very docile and easy to work.  I also have a colony that has a fully black queen, the first one I've ever had, and that colony has done very poorly this year and will likely be requeened first thing next spring.  But having only ever had the one black queen, I'm not willing to say that her color is in indicator of poor colony quality just yet.     

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GENERAL BEEKEEPING - MAIN POSTING FORUM. / Re: is Crimson Clover a good nector source

« Last post by The15thMember on October 08, 2024, 12:31:04 pm »

That has been my experience as well, Phillip.  When the bees are on the clover it means nothing else is really blooming.   

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GENERAL BEEKEEPING - MAIN POSTING FORUM. / Re: is Crimson Clover a good nector source

« Last post by Ben Framed on October 08, 2024, 11:00:00 am »

Clover is a tricky one - even White Clover. The bees work it sometime and sometimes not. It depends on soil type, soils moisture, humidity, temperature and a lot more.

It depends on what else is blooming at the time. If they find something else in bloom they prefer more so than clover, they will work that instead.

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MOVIES / Re: Spaceballs

« Last post by Michael Bush on October 08, 2024, 07:02:59 am »

Mel Brooks is a treasure.

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GENERAL BEEKEEPING - MAIN POSTING FORUM. / Re: Tiger Queens

« Last post by Michael Bush on October 08, 2024, 06:58:29 am »

I often have tiger striped queens.  Sometimes I get worker striped queens.  They are REALLY hard to find.  The tiger striped queens tend to be good queens.  But all of them are sometimes great queens.  If you breed from the black ones you get more striped ones...

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DOWN UNDER BEEKEEPING / Re: News from Down Under

« Last post by Michael Bush on October 08, 2024, 06:51:44 am »

I had some punched plastic ones in the past.  I think they tear up their wings more than smooth wire or smooth round plastic ones.

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DOWN UNDER BEEKEEPING / Re: I?m in trouble again

« Last post by Michael Bush on October 08, 2024, 06:40:29 am »

The legs on the thing in the picture that has a pupae and one thing on it, look too long for Varroa.  Way too long.