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When I started beekeeping 40 years ago the boast was "My bees are yellower than yours!". Imported US Italians were fashionable then. I've never in my life paid for a bee and so always used and selected from local mongrels. Then, about 20 years ago a friend (now the local Bee Inspector) offered me a New Zealand Italian queen, which I accepted. They bred massively, filling 2 brood boxes and 3 supers and bearded at the entrance. They were as gentle as flies
They reared a crop of queen cells with which I requeened many of my hives, using the NZ method. Then winter drew near. The bees ate their heads off! I did get a crop but not great. The hives that I'd requeened all turned stroppy and it took me about 5 years to get their temper back to what it had been before.
Nowadays fashion has changed to "My bees are darker than yours!"
Chris
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