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Bonjour a tous !
this discussion get me in mind an article from Paul Jungels and Jos Guth
the Luxemberger bee breeders (in french) in "Abeille de France" 1995 p273:
>> ...the inducing quality development of a queen don't end with the
laying of the first eggs. During the next phase she is living a very
delicate development period. >>
at this time you put her first in a small cage, get it at the post
far of her cluster with only a few bees and introduce in established
colonies where she is and remains at least for a month a stranger the
old bees will kill !
Jos Guth described some typical cases :
>> I have been able to observe queens maintained a long period in
Kirchhainer nucs (very small nucs used in Germany) doesn't reach at
the same fitness (vital power - force vitale in french) then queens
from the same series but living in normal conditions, with
possibilities of full development. Same observations the next years !
>>
and ...
>> We find the same bad effect when the queens are **introduced in
strong production colonies** immediately after the beginning of the
laying (and we don't mention the introduction difficulties at this
stage !) ... >>
... He concluded :
>> An optimal breeding is conditionned by the quality of the queens
used as mother and by the conditions of the larvas, the breeding
colonies and the conditions of emerging of the young queens.
Moreover, the development is not finished when the queen is laying her
first eggs. It's not during her birth year that the queen reach her
maximum productivity but the next year ! It seems then not reasonable
to overwork the queens the first year (at least the first 2-3 months)
One must let her the time to fully develop.
>>
I phone to Jos Guth yesterday after the lot of mails about the US queen
problems :
>> I'm a queen supplier and I don't like to send my queens by post but
I always advise the beekeepers to put these queens as soon as possible
in small colonies with young bees to achieve her development, never in
a production hive.
Moreover, the tracheal mite is responsible of the lot of problem
they actually get in the US. It's time they get some resistant
strains. Maybe this will occur sooner without any TM treatment while
the resistant lines are multiplied. But do that ?!?
>>
Jean-Marie
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Jean-Marie Van Dyck Fax +32 81 72 42 72
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B-5000 NAMUR(Belgium) Medical school - Biochemistry dept
This => C'est ma facon de parler !
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