Hi Maurice,
 
Don't forget that in other part of the world people don't use theses
colored numbers we use here.
 
In fact most people don't produce queens... They buy them.
So where it is common for us to produce, test and select
queens, they mostly never saw the queen...
 
Why should they them bother labeling a queen? If you say them that
you actually open your box once a week, they will say you are a fool.
They are right. But they will never have the population we believe
normal.
 
We want good honey for ourself, and that our hobby doesn't become
too expensive... They see it as a source of money.
 
We tend to have very few hives but with the biggest population possible.
But if we fail to control it, we will loose all of it: swarming will be
wonderful, but the box will be empty.
 
By the way: Was this year also so bad for you? Any hive dead?
 
 
Bernard. (also Belgium)
 
Note for non Belgian: This year had the worst condition I have seen in
years beekeeping... We had to give some supply in July!!!
 
 
 
 
At 19:42 22/09/97 +0200, you wrote:
>Computer Software Solutions Ltd wrote:
>>
>> Hi All
>>
>> Another question from a new beekeeper
>>
>> The book says, that when you lift the crown board, that you should check
>> that the queen is not on the underside of it.
>>
>> It strikes me, that if you always put a queen excluder over the brood
>> chamber even before you put on any supers. that this possibility would be
>> eliminated, so it is one less thing for a new beekeeper (who like myself
>> would not be able to identify the queen in the melee of bees anyway), to
>> have to contend with.
>>
>> I am aware that a very small queen can possibily get through the excluder,
>> but to an amateur, who would have difficulty in identifying any sized queen,
>> this would hardly be of significance.
>>
>> What do our experienced people think?
>... it's so simple, if all of your Queens have a colored number on it,
>you will find them in a few minutes. So I do. sig. Maurice from Belgium
>
>
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