A Closer Look at Factors Affecting Queen Quality by Clarence Collison
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 5 มี.ค. 2019
- A lecture given by Clarence Collison at the 2018 National Honey Show entitled "A Closer Look at Factors Affecting Queen Quality" The National Honey Show gratefully acknowledge the Worshipful Company of Wax Chandlers for their support and Federation of Middlesex Beekeepers for their sponsorship.
The quality of the honey bee queen is directly related to the development and productivity of the colony. There are numerous factors that can affect queen quality. In recent times many beekeepers report that queens are superseded soon after they are introduced into a colony. We will review several factors that may be responsible for this decline in queen longevity and quality. In addition to looking at her basic biology, we will develop answers to two basic questions: 1) how can you determine if you have a good queen? And 2) What makes a good queen?
This will be the second presentation in the "mini programme".
Clarence Collison
As part of my undergraduate degree program majoring in entomology, I took my first course in beekeeping in 1966 which stimulated my interest in bees. During my Master’s program, I studied nectar secretion and how it affects the activity of honey bees in the pollination of hybrid pickling cucumbers. This research area was continued during my PhD program and was concerned with the interrelationships of honey bee activity, foraging behavior, climatic conditions and flowering in the pollination of pickling cucumbers. Throughout my career at The Pennsylvania State University and Mississippi State University, I have served as an Extension beekeeping specialist, taught beekeeping, trained graduate students, written numerous beekeeping publications, published two books and conducted many educational programs for the beekeeping community. For several years I chaired the “Master Beekeeper” certification program of the Eastern Apicultural Society of North America. I write a monthly column “A Closer Look” and prior to that “Do You Know” for Bee Culture magazine.
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From Nicaragua: Thanks so much for all those amazing lectures you kindly share.
One of the best lectures I have seen here. Thank you
Dr. Clarence has some good lectures on drone congregation areas too
Very good, and I mostly agree about Large Queens, however I've seen smaller Queens brood like craaaazzzyyyyy ..but as a general rule I agree and have witnessed the same thing , Good Video
thank you for quality of video and audio! a breath of fresh air with bee keeping lectures.
Research funding is the issue i.e. WHO is providing the money - big pharma are far more interested in developing the next big seller and providing money to conduct research that does not interfere with their bottom line.
What a great value of lecture
In Western Australia they do not have Varroa or small hive beetle. Their Bees are extraordinary, very vigorous and very productive with hives producing between 200 and 300 kg of honey per year.
11:11 which treatments are included in this assumption?
At 51:02 we get our answer. Oxalic and formic acids weren't a part of the study discussed at 11:11.
He said miticides right off the bat. OA is an organic acid
Whats the biggest size larvae relative to full size of comb that u should use when grafting a queen
Doesn't the Nicot system raise the queens from eggs? I have never used one but that was my understanding. On another subject who knew honey bees transmitted STDs.
This presentation (and the one given by Roger Patterson) presents US-figures/practices and implies that we have the same problems here. I just don't see any evidence for this in my colonies.
in queen production we need to pick better loaf of bread. bun in oven all that. but just as we poke squeeze smell and protect once we choose a loaf of prized sandwich bread, so why not do the same to eggs. heck they might smell different too. but we spend less time grafting punching etc.as we do the breed isle. if you put a bun in the oven i want the best.please see handling instructions. bun. bun oven.
Use Jenter or Nicot kit and you will not have problem with residues in wax.....simple
No idea what these are???
Letting the bees draw out a brood frame from starter strips and not using old comb to graft from will do the same, good luck grafting from fresh comb. It helps to sand down the tongue on a Chinese grafting tool to make it wafer thin.
Besides, miticides inbreeding is one of the reasons , so one must have virgin Queen from different source from where he bought last time
What mitecides r affecting the queens, what’s safe
He's not talking about oxalic acid, formic acid.
the replacements get out into the wilds.. as the bees prevented you from clipping the wings of them.. that is WHY they are doing it !
The thought is to do more damage to the mites living on the bees than the damage done to the bees by the treatments...the so called "soft" treatments are already being shown to be doing significant damage to queens, drones, and workers than initially thought...
That's why I am thinking on re queening with hygienic queens. The guys I've been talking to only had I varroa mite found in his 100 hives. To me that sounds good. I'm a firm believer that the diseases varroa spread is doing more damage than we can see. But hygenics seem to deal with them better.
Renee Brown Its also widely known that queens are carriers of viruses and transmit those viruses to her off spring...horizontal transmission...
Did I just hear queen's are getting STIs??
Using the Palmer method he uses eggs to graft
He uses larvae as close to egg as possible. th-cam.com/video/R7tinVIuBJ8/w-d-xo.html
Best to make your own queens - instead of buying someone else's culls