[ocba] another requeening method

John Mulholland john at mulhollandonline.com
Fri Feb 13 15:33:49 EST 2009


Hello all,

I am interested in hearing what people think of the following method:

   1. Make a split to ward off swarming (making sure eggs, honey and brood
   are present within the split).
   2. Wait two months
   3. Recombine the two colonies.

The theory is that in most cases you'll end up with a new queen, and if you
don't you are better off with the old one.

I understand that a bee keeper called Randy Quinn is promoting this method
(1). Like him I am interested in the subject of Gene pool diversity, and
cautious of the introduction of homogeneous hybrid stock.

Regards,
John

(1) http://www.beeuntoothers.com/2008organicconference.html
<http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=4279358984761013878>
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