At 04:59 PM 6/1/97 -0400, you wrote:
>In a message dated 97-06-01 13:21:20 EDT, you write:
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> Also, this makes no sense.  Any Buckfasts I have seen are very uniform in
> colouring.  I will leave it to more expert beekeepers and Buckfast owners
> to take it from there as far as the breeding goes.  I think your "Buckfast"
> queen may have died or swarmed and what you have is a queen that has been
> made by the bees and has been mated by some non-Buckfasts bees.
>
> Anyone else care to comment?.. >>
>   I have got to say thay I for one like the Buckfasts and am having good
>luck with them.
>  Who cares what race or breed a bee is -once the hive turns nasty requeen
>and eliminate the aggravation.
>  After all a good craftsman give himself every possible advantage  and a
>mean hive will make you less thorough in your management an inspection.
>   I have heard the more experianced say they get great crops from aggressive
>bees but I like working without gloves and keeping bees in town.
>
 
I have Buckfast and they are doing good but my Italian bees are out
producing them.
 
Anyone know if drones know if a queen is a virgin or not in the hive and if
a virgin queen doesn't mate what do the workers do if there isn't any eggs
in the hive to make another queen cell?