Queen breed?

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cao

May 27, 2019, 10:20:15 PM
I was checking some of my splits/swarm catches for signs of queen laying.  I found three queens that had stripes.

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So what race of bee could they bee?

Donovan J

#1
May 28, 2019, 12:00:52 AM
Those look like striped Italian queens. Very weird how the stripes are so defined. Looking good!

cao

#2
May 28, 2019, 12:16:03 AM
It makes them a little harder to find them.  I've had one or two in the past but this year has been a little unusual.  I found 3 today and 2 previously.  This is out of about 40 splits this year.

Donovan J

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May 28, 2019, 12:39:45 AM
Quote from: cao on May 28, 2019, 12:16:03 AM
It makes them a little harder to find them.  I've had one or two in the past but this year has been a little unusual.  I found 3 today and 2 previously.  This is out of about 40 splits this year.

I bet they look very similar to the workers

TheHoneyPump

#4
May 28, 2019, 02:36:21 AM
Those are from the Speedy Bee race.  Built in speed stripes. 

:cheesy:
When the lid goes back on, the bees will spend the next 3 days undoing most of what the beekeeper just did to them.

CoolBees

#5
May 28, 2019, 12:29:28 PM
Whatever they may bee - they are pretty!
You cannot permanently help men by doing for them, what they could and should do for themselves - Abraham Lincoln

Waveeater

#6
May 28, 2019, 06:54:38 PM
Check out this beauty. Only one I have this color. and she is a laying machine.[attachment=0][/attachment]

cao

#7
May 29, 2019, 01:06:57 AM
I like the color.  :cool:

Any other special queen pics out there?

TheHoneyPump

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May 29, 2019, 04:45:21 AM


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When the lid goes back on, the bees will spend the next 3 days undoing most of what the beekeeper just did to them.

BeeMaster2

#9
May 29, 2019, 07:52:19 AM
JP The Beeman calls them Tiger Stripes in his videos. He never did mention which strain they are.
Jim Altmiller
Democracy is 2 wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. Liberty is a well armed lamb contesting the vote.
Ben Franklin

Nock

#10
May 29, 2019, 08:55:38 AM
She?s a looker HP.

TheHoneyPump

#11
May 29, 2019, 12:00:41 PM




When the lid goes back on, the bees will spend the next 3 days undoing most of what the beekeeper just did to them.

Nock

#12
June 01, 2019, 09:32:02 PM
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Jim134

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June 03, 2019, 04:05:44 AM Last Edit: June 03, 2019, 04:17:26 AM by Jim 134
     The only  way to tell the breed of a Queen bee is a DNA
Testing ..  Everything else is just a Guessing game...


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Fishing-Nut

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June 06, 2019, 12:25:09 PM
Quote from: Waveeater on May 28, 2019, 06:54:38 PM
Check out this beauty. Only one I have this color. and she is a laying machine.[attachment=0][/attachment]
wave eater do you know the background of those bees? I really like those dark ones.
Take a kid fishing !

van from Arkansas

#15
June 06, 2019, 02:18:36 PM
HP, #8 looks like a Cordovan queen.
Your last pic has some beautiful stripped bees, various colors on abdomen.  Some colors I have not or very rarely see,,,, the Canadian specials.

Cao, kinda rare that queens have stripes, pretty though.  I can see why you posted pics.

Thank for all the pics of the queens.
I have been around bees a long time, since birth.  I am a hobbyist so my answers often reflect this fact.  I concentrate on genetics, raise my own queens by wet graft, nicot, with natural or II breeding.  I do not sell queens, I will give queens  for free but no shipping.

BeeMaster2

#16
June 06, 2019, 03:53:58 PM
Van,
I see Tiger striped queens quite often.
Jim
Democracy is 2 wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. Liberty is a well armed lamb contesting the vote.
Ben Franklin

TheHoneyPump

#17
June 06, 2019, 10:33:43 PM
Quote from: van from Arkansas on June 06, 2019, 02:18:36 PM
HP, #8 looks like a Cordovan queen.
Your last pic has some beautiful stripped bees, various colors on abdomen.  Some colors I have not or very rarely see,,,, the Canadian specials.

Cao, kinda rare that queens have stripes, pretty though.  I can see why you posted pics.

Thank for all the pics of the queens.

The dusty black queen is my current favourite and breeder for 1/3 of the apiary changeovers this season. Overall her colony has been very well behaved and an exceptional performer. The diversity of the colouring of her bees show how well bred and genetically diverse she is.  Each ripe cell put into a mating nuc nowadays is -like a box of chocolates, you just do not know what you are going to get- !  On checking days, opening one of her nucs is like breaking into a Kinder Surprise.  The queen daughters are as varied as you see of her entourage in the picture.  Gonna miss her, come August.
When the lid goes back on, the bees will spend the next 3 days undoing most of what the beekeeper just did to them.

Ben Framed

#18
June 06, 2019, 11:50:07 PM
Quote from: TheHoneyPump on June 06, 2019, 10:33:43 PM
Quote from: van from Arkansas on June 06, 2019, 02:18:36 PM
HP, #8 looks like a Cordovan queen.
Your last pic has some beautiful stripped bees, various colors on abdomen.  Some colors I have not or very rarely see,,,, the Canadian specials.

Cao, kinda rare that queens have stripes, pretty though.  I can see why you posted pics.

Thank for all the pics of the queens.

The dusty black queen is my current favourite and breeder for 1/3 of the apiary changeovers this season. Overall her colony has been very well behaved and an exceptional performer. The diversity of the colouring of her bees show how well bred and genetically diverse she is.  Each ripe cell put into a mating nuc nowadays is -like a box of chocolates, you just do not know what you are going to get- !  On checking days, opening one of her nucs is like breaking into a Kinder Surprise.  The queen daughters are as varied as you see of her entourage in the picture.  Gonna miss her, come August.

What is her name? 😁😁

FloridaGardener

#19
June 07, 2019, 12:45:15 AM
@HP- Please don’t squish her in August.  Please PM me and I will send you a Canadian postage-paid overnight envelope. She can retire to Florida and putter around slowly for a few years. :cool:

I could build an outyard apiary consisting of 100% retired queens, and visit them on Tuesdays.  It will be a bee-tirement community. 
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