Questioning Honey Bee Queen Breeding
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- Опубликовано: 2 апр 2024
- In this video, the SBGMI departs slightly from the usual format. Join us as Cory Stevens, Garett Slater PhD, James Lee, and Matt Kobe discuss the snares involved with vetting honey bee queens for purchase. As is becoming of beekeepers and beekeeping discussions we take a few paths off topic. We also discuss mite-resistance, selection criteria, genomics, and even conclude some questions with the usual beekeeping answer of 'depends'.
Cory Stevens, Honey Bee Breeder: www.stevensbeeco.com, @stevensbeeco767
Garett Slater, PhD, Genomics and Honey Bee Genetics Expert: www.ars.usda.gov/people-locat...
Matthew Kobe, Lead Apiarist at Kobe Apiaries in Grand Rapids, MI., SBGMI Director of Science & Research, NQI Vice President and Queen Rearer: www.kobeapiaries.com, @KobeApiaries
James Lee, owner of James Lee's Bees in Romulus, MI., SBGMI President, NQI President & Founder, and Queen Breeder: @JamesLeesBees
Thumbnail image photo credit: Megan Kobe, @KobeApiaries
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Okay, I guess I’ll watch a talk with my favorite beekeepers 😂😂😂
Awwww- we are gushing!
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This is a great discussion, I really appreciate it James!
Thank you for listening!
I really enjoyed this talk. I feel like anyone that raises queens should always be putting them under selection pressure. In the cannabis genetics industry, they call people that don't put their work through selection pressure "pollen chuckers" which is super irresponsible
Thank you, that means alot! Glad that it was helpful!
thank you SBGMI leaders for getting these two experts in one conversation. one of the best learning about queens I've listed to. Keep bring them on talking queens!
and Cory...we may not have 'married a billionaire'...but we are married to those worth way more than a billion! :) I wouldn't have my other girls if I didn't have my main girl.
We are here to help!
Very enjoyable. Great information.
Glad you found it enjoyable! We'll have to keep up the good work now!
1:37:04 Cory, I had one of my customer send me the results of his recent UBEEO score on an open mated f2 I sold him last spring as a cell and she scored 62%, so the hygienic traits from your stock is holding up well. The f1 queen mother she was from was also open mated in my local area while, he mated his queen around 40 miles from my beeyard. Great work Cory!!
Really enjoyed this. There was a lot of great information here. Thanks for putting this out!
Thank you Mike. It was a fun chat. Would you like to see more SBGMI productions like this?
@@sbgmimedia Absolutely. Always so much to learn.
Some of my bees will fly at 40-45f, I guess that just what some northern bees do.
That's one good looking queen in the thumbnail! 😉
She is incredible!
Please turn on the subtitles
Hi Viktor - the transcript may take a day or two post-production to generate, then the subtitles will become available.
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Thank you for your clarification, your information is important to me.
Glory to Ukraine !!!!
when was this recorded? date?
January 24th.
Guys don't get it wrong.. l'm in Croatia, right in the middle of it. Carniolan queens are not very dark, like black. Actually they can be brown, gray and with tiger stripes. Just not yellow-orange and dark black. But their offspring are all grey. We call them "our gray bees". If l see some orange striped bees in the hive (very rare...) she is out of selection. No way l'm letting her drones fly...
I have been so hard pressed to find quality VSH queens to add to my apiary. My bee club is extremely skeptical (I understand why). Especially Northern oriented queens.
Well in part, this is why the discussion was recorded. There are some challenges in identifying reliable sourcing. The prevalence of reliable stock is trending toward "more" and "better" in our opinion and we'd like to keep trying to influence that.
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@@sbgmimedia I am a out of state member. No other bee group is on the cutting edge you are on.
Adding a numbered disc to my F1 queens is not a big deal as Cory seems to think it is. I use Titebond III for the glue. I want the F1's that I sell to the VA beekeepers to be distinctive in the hive so they don't get lost in the shuffle. James, please make sure Cory sees this. ruclips.net/video/jAv_s9VrYII/видео.html
My father did alot of good selection without even thinking too much about it..
Over 50 years of selection for cleanest bottom boards after winter and big honey crop and healthy bees ofcourse.. living on an island.. I didn't see those brood diseases like chalk brood over a decade now. His bees deformed wing virus is not even visible. I'm sure it's in the hives but the wings don't get deformed.
You have so much work ahead of you to do.. I'm glad it's not me. I'm more in inventing new methods for keeping them in droughts and long dearth