Why buy breeder queens? 

Thanks for the effort that you put into your videos. I drive 60 to 65 hrs in 5 days to stay busy. It is great to see you create value!!#

Fantastic video. Really enjoyed this one👍

Brilliant talk man 👍 can't believe I missed this one. Great job thanks 👍

Thank you, I can’t wait to get my queens from Duncan Simmons.

Hi Richard very good insight into breeder queens intoduction I'm very surpised on the mite levels on the Marken & Stoffen queens as I have older versions in service !!

Good info, Thanks for Sharing! Not alot of info on Breeder Queen stuff out there so thank you !

Very nice talk, thank you!

Hey Richard love you videos and your music. Very catchy. I was wondering if you could do a video on the traits passsed down by queens and traits passed down through drones. Example aggression passed through the drones. You’re a great teacher. My queens are so much better thanks to your teaching!

Great video like always Richard. About the varoa resistance, I've read that even tested queens you buy can be desapointing because epigenetics is playing its part in the equation.

great insight!!!👍🏻👍🏻

Added genetics 2 years ago. Added a different varroa resistance but not like my stock. I allowed open mating so the genetics are out there but the II breeder was not as strong as my girls. Nice video !!

Nice video, I would remove the last frame from the first hive at this moment. good luck Richard!!

Hope you will let us know what level the mites are in the rest of the hives. I was as surprised as you that the counts were that high. They all looked so healthy and vibrant with such a good temperament. Good luck with those dang mites.

Congratulations for the video!

I find Duncan Simmons one of the best queen breeders in the UK. All queens I get from him perform amazing.

Hi Richard do you buy tried and tested and proven queens or are they either island mated or II young queens with the right genetics. Just wondered because there is big difference in price. I am thinking of changing to buckfast because of the reasons you have mentioned. Interested in your thoughts on this. great videos by the way.

Really interesting stuff Richard. I’ll try one of Duncan’s queens next year I think based on your results and given that he’s uk based. How much should I expect to pay for his inseminated Buckfasts? I’m relatively happy with my attempts in this first year of queen rearing, my final graft of thirty cells has given me 17 marked queens all now doing well in their 6 frame poly nucs. All fed and treated with fingers crossed for the winter. Also, I noticed today that the bees are suddenly going crazy on the very abundant ivy here in sunny Derbyshire which is good to see. It’s seems that like you, we also are having a last minute turn of good weather at the moment. It’s just a shame we didn’t get it during the summer flow. All the best and many thanks for the great videos. Cheers Kim

I know that problem with with melifera iberiense so many moons ago I had some buckfast queens from Lutz Eggert , now I do Carni,s from Italy, both do great offspring’s, but overtime they hybrid and you have to refresh the stock.

Richard, Thanks for the video. Would have been interesting to see a varroa wash sample from one of those 'shitty' local bees you mentioned? A 'control group' sample is essential in getting the real situation. At least that is what I have found with bees where I am.

Hi Richard, great video again! Very interesting to listen where you are at right now regarding breeding and great trick to get the bees in the pot! Will copy that😊 Regarding breeding i got very fortunate to have a buddy here in germany whos a professional and involved in a buckfast vsh program in bavaria. What i learned is, its an incredible amount of work of a few and kind of impossible to get great genetics easy on the internet, because its still a long way to go and the best vsh breeders in europe like paul jungels in luxemburg dont sell their great queens just like that. Unfortunately there are also people who make money by saying its varroa resistant etc. he told me. I chose now that next season i will start my own breeding line/s and will get nearly all my queens a controlled mating every year to get a feet on the ground, hopefully harvest more honey and dont have to buy queens. Right now i think its a great idea and i can do the job😅 will see how it goes. Greetings, Flo

Richard, I love your videos, thank you. One question I have, regarding your 'queen catcher cage' that you really like, where can I buy one of those.? Thanks in advance

Are you curious about the three lines, from which you will choose to reproduce the year, and which pleased you the most?

Richard where in the world are you? How do you keep your varoa treatments out of your wax, watched your whole video very interesting thanks noel new zealand.

Richard have you considered using Co2 rather than alcohol? I’m thinking of drilling a hole in side and using cork or bike co2 pump

Thank you for another great video. I really enjoyed it. I’m curious about something that if you have time I was hoping you might answer. I’ve heard that artificially inseminated queens are more likely to be superseded. Is this true or is this just a marker of a poorly inseminated queen and they need to get better quality queens?

Sorry Richard, but you are expecting to much from the Queens. The last one had 20% less. That is a really good result. The Varroa tolerance breeding is still at the beginning. We are making small steps. All the Best. Mike

Retest them all. The sampling error is crazy...same hive second measurements 23 vs 1 vs 15 etc. the might wash numbers have a crazy variance. I’ve been going to the onseys and twoseys and giving them free queens...and a frame of drone comb.

Hey Richard what do you think of Caucasian Queens? I was thinking of getting a few in the spring.

Very interesting vlog Noel , how many strips will you give the nuc,s

do you have video on how to make the pollen sub?

I think mite levels have been generally fairly high this year.

It has be proven that just because bees are resitant from one airier that they will be resitant in yours (Bienen insitut Erlangen Germany 2019)

This is a little off the suject but what are the dimensions on the frames you are using? They look deeper than standard Langstroth deeps but not as large as layens.

Good day Richard. If the queen gets a mite on her. Do the other bees pick the mites off of her or do the mites kill her too thank you sir

Taking Mite samples: Randy Oliver lately did some research on this topic. He came to some really interessting conclusions. Worth reading :)

3:27 Mike Palmer mentioned he offers to requeen the hives of backyard beekeepers near his mating nuc apiaries at no cost to help decrease the chances of unfavorable drones. I wonder how many he actually does in practice?

Hello, what kind of bees do you have? Where did you get your queen?

hopefully :)

Hello, would it be possible to buy some Queens from your stock?

I would take bees that dont care your stand in front of the hive any day, over hive that has there eye on you from 30 feet away but produce a extra jar of honey.

What do you mean you have taken daughters from queens?

Flood the area was drones

Get rid of the ads please.

Textbook cognitive dissonance. Expensive queens for what? High mite numbers, and they require treatment just to live? Not runny? You can get bees like that for free. But oh, she has a fancy number sticker on her! Commercial beekeepers stymie me. Thanks for sharing though.