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- From: Randall Austin <ra41717 AT gmail.com>
- To: John Rintoul <beecd AT icloud.com>
- Cc: Hamsiba Family <hamsibas AT gmail.com>, Orange County Beekeepers Association <ocba AT lists.ibiblio.org>
- Subject: Re: [ocba] White-eyed Drones
- Date: Sun, 02 Aug 2015 15:53:08 -0400
I've never seen them "in person" but
white-eyed drones apparently pop up enough for people to get a
kick out of them. Here is a very brief explanation from Glenn
Apiaries; they show some even weirder drone freaks
too. The white thorax is really strange; here
is a photo where somebody else had one.
Thanks for sharing another great reason to get out there and look
at your bees!
Randall
On 8/2/2015 6:35 AM, Hamsiba Family wrote:
John,
Very cool stuff. This reminds me of raising fruit
flies in genetics lab in college. They can get a number of
different colored eyes. But no sting, no honey. Kind of like no
pain, no gain!
As always, I am trying to gauge acceptability of
different mite counts at different times of year. Do you
consider 5 at this time of year to be low and acceptable?
Cheers, Brad
On Aug 2, 2015 12:09 AM, "John Rintoul"
< beecd AT icloud.com>
wrote:
I
inspected one of my hives today and found a couple
of oddities - white-eyed drones. There were about
half a dozen scattered around various corners of the
hive. The attached picture isn't great ( I should have turned off the
flash), but you get
the idea.
In
addition to the white-eyed drones there was one
drone with white eyes and a white thorax. I didn't
get a picture of that one as the bees were getting
tired of me by then.
And for those of you
interested in my ongoing experiment with VSH bees,
the mite count in this hive was 5. The queen is
one generation removed from the original VSH
Queen. The original queen left with a swarm this
spring so the current matriarch is her daughter.
Either mite counts are down for everyone this year
or the VSH genes carry over even at half strength.
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