Queen failures and poor performance studies

[wayne]

It seems the British have to study everything around them and bees are no exception. This article is a study of poor Queen mating and laying and possible causes.

http://www.bbka.org.uk/news/news/queenspoor-mating-and-lay.shtml

 The possible effects of microwave towers caught my eye as they are all over the US.


wayne

[Mici]

i've seen this disscused over before. one beekeeper said, that NONE of his queens returned from mating flights, but now that they removed-moved away the powerlines he says that the queens are mating normaly

[Finsky]

I think that Roger is too mad with his opinions. He see all problems from view of mating.  Question is not about "British".   I have had splended queen year. All queens have returned to hives and started laying.

"If you have a hammer all problems seems to resemble nails".

[Brian D. Bray]

The views represent what I've been noticing from the multitude of entries within this forum.  I have tried more than once to raise a response to the frequent and unexplained loss of queens and too frequent supercedure rates for purchaased queens whether in packages or solo.  It is why I believe we must shy away from artificial chemical treatments and use only natural occuring ones like Oxalic acid.
I believe the future of beekeeping lies in naturopathic treatments, selective breeding (by artificial insemination if necessary) and feral survivor stock.

[Michael Bush]

I hear of a lot of people having supercedure problems.  I think it's the chemicals.  I'm raising my own and not seeing that.