Trevor Weatherhead wrote:
>
> Graham Kleinschmidt has carried out research on queen banking.  He has a paper
> titled "Banking of Queen Honey Bees" and is 14 pages long.
>
> He looked at free flying hives both queenless and queenright; non flying
> packages with 1.5kgs bees and mailing cages.
>
> His final sentence is "This research indicates that queen bee storage in
> nucleii is preferable but as such storage is not always practical, queen
> banking might be used for the equivalent of one queen production cycle
> (20-25days) with the minimum of detrimental affect if queen bees are properly
> stored.  Flying colonies of quiet temperament, preferably queenless and
> broodless or queenless and broodright and fed pollen and sugar ad lib provided
> the best results."
>
> If anyone wants a copy by snail mail let me know and I will photocopy it.
>
> Trevor Weatherhead
> AUSTRALIA
 
I WOULD BE INTERESTED IN A COPY OF THAT REPORT.
 
THANKS
 
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