You are quite correct Keith,
Canada has many very good queen breeders. As you state, selecting and
breeding is fundamental to good (successfull) beekeeping. Here in northern
Quebec I can readily buy queens from Hawai, but are they adapted for either
minus 35oC weather outside or 5 months of complete darkness inside during
our winters. I believe in locally produced stock with occassional imports of
very selected lines.
Peter,  who is busing moving bees into total darkness.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Keith Malone" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: November 12, 2003 11:57 AM
Subject: Re: [BEE-L] Queens imports in Canada


> Hi Hervé & All,
> I do not understand why Canada does not utilize their own high class
> breeders of which I am sure there are plenty of. Also, I would think that
> breeding and mating queens to improve ones own stock would and should be a
> fundamental practice in being a beekeeper. In my opinion, beekeepers are
not
> really keeping their bees if they are constantly changing the stock they
> keep by requeening from a stock far away. If beekeepers were to learn to
> breed their own queens they would become better beekeepers on many levels.

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