"Pick the hive model that is best suited to your locale, populate it with local bees, and the results will speak for themselves" Georges de Layens, "The Complete Course in Apiculture" 1892
Quote from: Michael Bush on March 21, 2019, 11:43:50 AM
"Pick the hive model that is best suited to your locale, populate it with local bees, and the results will speak for themselves" Georges de Layens, "The Complete Course in Apiculture" 1892
I Got my first hives via cutouts. Not only were they local but also hardy and the small size bee. Dark in color yet gentle and hard workers. I later in the fall I made splits from these by purchasing some queens from Georgia at about the same Latitude as am I. Nice gentle hard workers, great laying queens which produce a yellow tinted bee.
Phillip