Cory Stevens On Using VSH Virgin Queens
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- Опубликовано: 2 авг 2024
- Using virgin honey bee queens in your apiary sounds risky. But, Cory Stevens has been in the VSH queen rearing practice for quite a while and feels strongly this method is sustainable practice, and improves your outcomes in matching desired honey bee traits with your local honey bee stock.
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Great video ❤
COUNT ME IN!!! ITS A DONE DEAL!!! BEST BEE KEEPING DECISION I FEEL IVE EVER MADE! THANK YOU COREY STEVENS AND MICHAEL PALMER!! God Bless Youall And Your Bees!!!
I Have Nothing Else To Do BUT This! Im So Excited!!! Thanks again Guys!
It sounds like the best of all worlds to use proven VSH virgin queens open mated to local drones.
I’m a believer in Corey’s approach. I’ll be ordering three virgin queens for early summer delivery. (Hoping two will successfully mate and return)
I don't know why "any" sideliner, wouldn't be willing to participate in partnering with Cory, and shipping him some of your best F1s.
Would be great if you add video chapters, especially for the q&a.
Are you volunteering? :D
HI Cory....thanks for all you do. I have watched so many treatment videos that it is clear there is so much confusion on it. I have been following you and want to follow your lead on survival queens. Quick question...I want to start gluing numbers to my queens. Can you guide me to where i get the numbers and what is the right glue? some say the Titebond 2 works well. thanks again....----stan
Does AFB in the feral colonies of non central Australia that is reatively common where i live inadvertanty increase the possibility that these bees that survive AFB are naturally breading for varroa resistance ?
Do you think his bees would do well in Michigan?
Great question. I have 8 or so of his queens from last spring, all still doing fine! Those are located in Romulus. Last season the SBGMI distributed over 40 of Stevens' Queens through the state for Beekeepers.
Burning the place down Cory
The VSH gene are recessive, so a 100% VHS queen mated with a 0% VSH Drone you get 0% VSH, the daughter's will be 50% VSH but recessive, that means that the VHS trades are not going to be displayed. Only the F1 drones from that queen will be VHS
That's interesting. Where do you get data about the trait being recessive? Any studies you can cite? Majority understanding is VSH is additive and neither dominant or recessive.
www.glenn-apiaries.com/genetic_aspects_queen_production_3.html
Here's another paper:
"The honey bee (Apis mellifera) exhibits the highest rate of genomic recombination among multicellular animals with about five cross-over events per chromatid."
bmcgenomics.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12864-015-1281-2