There is a technique out there that's being used with much success called "On The Spot Queen Rearing" or "OTS". It takes full advantage of the emergency queen response. It proves what he is saying isn't exactly right. OTS queens are fantastic!
Some recent research on the some of the topics covered (paste in to your favourite search engine): "Is the Brood Pattern within a Honey Bee Colony a Reliable Indicator of Queen Quality?" "Worker bees select royal (sub)family members, not their own supersisters, to be new queens" "Honeybees prioritize well-fed larvae for emergency queen-rearing"
There is a technique out there that's being used with much success called "On The Spot Queen Rearing" or "OTS". It takes full advantage of the emergency queen response. It proves what he is saying isn't exactly right. OTS queens are fantastic!
Sir, I have a doubt, it's from india (keral) i have some stingless bee colony, in my collection some colony are week in there performance and the colony members are week in there number of bees.... How to increase there performance and the strength of the colony.... My english is not got.... lots of grammar mistakes.. places don't feel bad in my english..... and places give a better way to my doubt... Jeswin b james
I have a question or an experiment or both, bees use pheromones to mark ownership and so do ants, and I have watched a few ant videos on how 2 species of ants can coexist and help each other and I am now wondering if this can be done with ants and bees. by using a type of ant that only eats beetles mites and pests but dose not eat honey. if they where introduced so that at first they share the air flow of the hive, but can not enter the hive so both ants and bees get used to each other, and when there pheromones mix in the hive and ant farm making them think they are all part of the 1 system in the hive open the door to the ants and see what happens , this might not work but it is worth looking into, that is if you can find an ant suitable , just thinking outside the box I know ants are a problem, but can we turn a problem into an advantage.
ants also have a large queen so the ant farm could have a queen ant excluder so she can not leave the ant farm so they might not nest in the hive and remain nesting in the ant farm module
Sure, it's also been shown that smaller colonies (call them "feral" if you like) that swarm more often have less varroa. But of course they produce less honey or you can not fulfill your pollination contract using small colonies. Life is all about priorities, I guess. Another approach: limit the queen to two frames laying at the end of June for about three weeks. There is more to that though and it is a lot more work. Again, priorities.
