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Subject:	Re: introduce natural selection into breeding protocols
From:	Mike S <[log in to unmask]>
Reply To:	Informed Discussion of Beekeeping Issues and Bee Biology <[log in to unmask]>
Date:	Thu, 7 Jan 2010 10:32:08 -0800
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--- On Thu, 1/7/10, Garret <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
As far as I know I think some queen breeding operations use drones that are medicated/treated allowing some of the undesirables to mate.
This would seem to be an area in bee husbandry to look at.

Unless you can control the drone population at in at least a 10 mile radius of your mating yard(s), it's my understanding that you won't have control of the drone mating population for your virgin queens.  And that would include drones which have been medicated in hives within that radius.

We had a queen producer in the lower Alabama area who provided queens (his drone producers) to all of the beekeepers within that radius free of charge just so that he could control, to the best of his ability, the drone population for his production queens.

Mike in LA



      

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