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>That is the question. Tis' nobler...etc., etc....
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>I've been catching queens, marking them AND clipping
>wings for a few years now. Just wondering if clipping
>wings is really an advantageous practice or not. I
>know my *old* queens don't leave with the swarms. They
>jus' kinda fly in circles. ;^)
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>With marked queens, I never use a clipped wing as
>identification. I know some people believe that it
>somehow damages the queen and the other bees sense
>this. But have any studies of this ever really been
>accomplished? Is the supersedeure rate greater among
>queens that have had their wings clipped?
>
>Also, from you BRITISH types out there: Can you tell
>me what the 'normal procedure' of Buckfast Abbey is?
>Do they normally clip wings or not? Does Brother Adam
>have an opinion on rather one should or should not clip
>wings?
>
>BusyKnight
>Dallas, TX
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Hi BusyKnight;
Brother Adam was a bee researcher that was investigating the Italian
strain of bees, near the end of his life the Buckfast bee strain was place
in a number of location in the World to make available this strain.
If you do not clip your wing of a marked queen your neibhour will
get a mark queen when it abscombs with a swarm, remember that the old queen
and the swarm leaves before the new queen hatches and swarning is a natural
occurrence.
Thanks from :
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http://www.eastend.com.au/~goble
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American Beach Kangaroo Island South Australia
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