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> My question is: How can I get their aggressiveness down? I was
> thinking of importing queens, but that could bring the verroa
> down here. Bees are fairly healthy and we don't really have a
> bee illness to worry about. Can anyone help?
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> The honey season starts in late November here and finishes in
> April.
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> Regards,
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> Guillermo Jacoby
> AHBeekeeper from Nicaragua
I have an idea here. Probably a stupid one. But I won't know that till
someone tells me! <G>
If you could flood the area with Non Africanized drones, wouldn't they
mate with the Africanized Queens, thereby causing some mixing of the Non
Africanized with the Africanized?
I got this idea while reading "The hive and the honey bee". Something
about it being hard to keep ratial purity because of all the drones from
a locality gathering at a comon place to meet the local queens on their
mating flights. It would seem that by using foundation with larger cells
that a larger "crop" of drones could be gotten.
I anxiously await replys.
Harry Bowie
0 years in bee keeping
0 hives (till next spring)
Just a want to bee!
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