It's been interesting reading all  the submissions concerning Queens from
here and there.
Oddly no one has questioned how invasive the africanized genes have become
in major US breeding.

Besides supplements and location , it's also the beekeeper that affects the
outcome i.e production etc.and that's always been the case- lack of knowing
what's going on.

But genetics says it all and that choice if introducing a change depends
soley on the beekeeper.
I wasn't around 30 - 50 years ago but found being a good beekeeper with
introduction of selected genetics sure makes a difference.

As for that rumour about that expensive supplement not working, well there's
alot of us who are feeding the stuff and trust me it works and I have an
Austrian study on hand  and several beeyards where its fed that backs that
one up.

Up here in Ontario, we are bringing in Chilean queens which are the earliest
, raising Russians, and queens like Szabo (all found on the OBA website-
ontario bee.com).  Sadly we lost a major buckfast breeder to cancer recently
but Buckfast is still around. Mix them up and you just might be happy.

Walter
littlewolfapiaries.com

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