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wayne
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Queen failures and poor performance studies
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August 27, 2006, 05:55:56 pm »
It seems the British have to study everything around them and bees are no exception. This article is a study of poor Queen mating and laying and possible causes.
http://www.bbka.org.uk/news/news/queenspoor-mating-and-lay.shtml
The possible effects of microwave towers caught my eye as they are all over the US.
wayne
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Mici
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August 28, 2006, 03:18:50 am »
i've seen this disscused over before. one beekeeper said, that NONE of his queens returned from mating flights, but now that they removed-moved away the powerlines he says that the queens are mating normaly
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Finsky
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August 28, 2006, 03:27:08 am »
I think that Roger is too mad with his opinions. He see all problems from view of mating. Question is not about "British". I have had splended queen year. All queens have returned to hives and started laying.
"If you have a hammer all problems seems to resemble nails".
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Brian D. Bray
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August 29, 2006, 09:07:16 am »
The views represent what I've been noticing from the multitude of entries within this forum. I have tried more than once to raise a response to the frequent and unexplained loss of queens and too frequent supercedure rates for purchaased queens whether in packages or solo. It is why I believe we must shy away from artificial chemical treatments and use only natural occuring ones like Oxalic acid.
I believe the future of beekeeping lies in naturopathic treatments, selective breeding (by artificial insemination if necessary) and feral survivor stock.
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Michael Bush
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September 01, 2006, 11:39:57 pm »
I hear of a lot of people having supercedure problems. I think it's the chemicals. I'm raising my own and not seeing that.
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