Their is still some Russian line that are still being tested that have
not been put in the Russian
breeding program that came out of Quarantine Station at Grand Terre
Island, Louisiana last year. The
Russian breeding program consist of 15 lines of  Russian queens with 5
in each block, only the best two
 are released in the block that is under field test for that year, they
are mated to drones from the other two
 blocks that are not under test to keep from inbreeding. Queens that
make the grade are used for grafting the
queens for sale as Russian breeder queens mated under the same
conditions as the test queens.

  The Russian breeding program is a long term project (20 years), the
Russian bee that was released
in 2004 is better than the one released in 2003 and so on due to the
constant culling and selection test
done by the bee lab every year.




Harper's Honey Farm
Charlie
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Ph# 337 896 5247

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