Does anyone know if Russian bees exhibit a higher rate of MBB (ankle biters)? Anyone with a 15x dissecting microscope can ID the MBB trait. 1- 3 % of hives may show the trait, so who has checked their Russians? Reportedly participants in the SARE program are selling queens and nucs at higher prices. More info at links: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ChiA5-J-sPo Dr. Greg Hunt video at Southern Indiana Beek Assoc mtg (starts at minute 17:00) http://c.ymcdn.com/sites/www.abfnet.org/resource/resmgr/imported/Greg%20Hunt.mp3 audio recording of Dr. Greg Hunt at American Bee Federation meeting (starts at minute 11:05) http://mysare.sare.org/sare_project/fne15-819/?page=final Final Report on MBB - project end 2016 (awarded $14,999 in funds) The SARE report as a PDF at http://mysare.sare.org/sare_project/fne15-819/?page=final&view=print (valuable test protocol info included) MBB in general discussed by Kevin Inglin on latest podcast: http://www.bkcorner.org/?p=1259 Thanks to Kevin for retrieving and preserving the ABF audio! Joe Lewis *********************************************** The BEE-L mailing list is powered by L-Soft's renowned LISTSERV(R) list management software. For more information, go to: http://www.lsoft.com/LISTSERV-powered.html
