Hi all
I quite agree with Larry Connor ...
> 2. Most beekeepers are not very well educated about using
queen bees,
>and would rather listen to someone with an "easy" method rather than
read a ...
What I believe the most significant concerning the young queens is to
understand that they are "young"! I do not very like the
(bad) antropomorphic comparisons, but that, the bee-keepers always
understand it.
If you compare a young queen with a thirteen year old girl (they are
young but they lays eggs !), they immediately see the difference with a
woman of twenty-five, thirty years. No difficulty ... but here we have
the same difference!
If you place this young girl in a mafia of a great quantity of
hurdy-gurdies bitches and that you their known that she'll be their
future head. They will kill it on the first occasion.
You'll get no problem if you put them in a group of gentle teenagers
(very young, nurse or emerging bees)!
Understand ? Then "forewarned is forearmed" and pay great attention
when these queens are not yet surrounded by her offspring (at least 21
days).
On this subject, the 1950 article (in German - full
article in 1950, in English (abstract only) 1951, and in French -full
article in 1952) of Brother Adam is ALWAYS UP-TO-DATE: you will be able
to read it on the URL:
http://fundp.ac.be/~jvandyck/homage/artcl/FAintroBW51en.html an
abstract in English
http://fundp.ac.be/~jvandyck/homage/artcl/FAintroSBZ50de.html Die
Artikel auf deutsch
http://fundp.ac.be/~jvandyck/homage/artcl/FAintroBA52fr.html l'article
en français
Hoping for how this will help to avoid the killings of this lot of
poor young queens!
Jean-Marie Van Dyck <<[log in to unmask]>
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