>>A.m.m..... Last year I started with 120 colonies, produced 5.5
tonnes of honey...
Very nice. I visited my beekeeping uncle in Poland a few weeks ago.
He keeps 100 colonies and gets 5 tonnes of honey in an average year.
Do you practice migratory beekeeping? My uncle does. A stationary
apiary in his area would produce a lot less.
I noted his bees looked very dark but unlike the Carniolans we have
in the US. He produces his own queens and only occasionally swaps a
couple of queens with other beekeepers to raise drones with different
genetics.
His bees seemed a bit more defensive than mine although qucikly
responded to smoke and run a little more on the frame. I wonder if
his bees have A.m.m. genetics... The queens were typically very dark
with occasional yellow spots along the bottom of the abdomen.
>>What I also would like to know: is anyone keeping A.m.m. in the US??
Pass!
From what I've hard, I think A.m.m. could do very well in the wet,
cool Northwest of the US.
Waldemar
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