Questioning Honey Bee Queen Breeding

[@Mike_squarebeefarms]

Really enjoyed this. There was a lot of great information here. Thanks for putting this out!

[@sbgmimedia]

Thank you Mike. It was a fun chat. Would you like to see more SBGMI productions like this?

[@Mike_squarebeefarms]

@@sbgmimedia Absolutely. Always so much to learn.

[@reindeersbees]

This is a great discussion, I really appreciate it James!

[@sbgmimedia]

Thank you for listening!

[@rickiering3485]

1:37:04 Cory, I had one of my customer send me the results of his recent UBEEO score on an open mated f2 I sold him last spring as a cell and she scored 62%, so the hygienic traits from your stock is holding up well. The f1 queen mother she was from was also open mated in my local area while, he mated his queen around 40 miles from my beeyard. Great work Cory!!

[@NancyDow-xp5sl]

Very enjoyable. Great information.

[@sbgmimedia]

Glad you found it enjoyable! We'll have to keep up the good work now!

[@Ashby_Farms_NC]

Okay, I guess I’ll watch a talk with my favorite beekeepers 😂😂😂

[@sbgmimedia]

Awwww- we are gushing!

[@Ashby_Farms_NC]

@@sbgmimedia 🤣🤣🤣

[@KobeApiaries]

That's one good looking queen in the thumbnail! 😉

[@JamesLeesBees]

She is incredible!

[@emblebeeapiary3999]

thank you SBGMI leaders for getting these two experts in one conversation. one of the best learning about queens I've listed to. Keep bring them on talking queens!

[@emblebeeapiary3999]

and Cory...we may not have 'married a billionaire'...but we are married to those worth way more than a billion! :) I wouldn't have my other girls if I didn't have my main girl.

[@sbgmimedia]

We are here to help!

[@jasonseaward8506]

I really enjoyed this talk. I feel like anyone that raises queens should always be putting them under selection pressure. In the cannabis genetics industry, they call people that don't put their work through selection pressure "pollen chuckers" which is super irresponsible

[@sbgmimedia]

Thank you, that means alot! Glad that it was helpful!

[@viktorbee7366]

Please turn on the subtitles

[@sbgmimedia]

Hi Viktor - the transcript may take a day or two post-production to generate, then the subtitles will become available.

[@viktorbee7366]

@@sbgmimedia Thank you for your clarification, your information is important to me. Glory to Ukraine !!!!

[@wishicouldspel]

when was this recorded? date?

[@JamesLeesBees]

January 24th.

[@reindeersbees]

Some of my bees will fly at 40-45f, I guess that just what some northern bees do.

[@jf7654]

I have been so hard pressed to find quality VSH queens to add to my apiary. My bee club is extremely skeptical (I understand why). Especially Northern oriented queens.

[@sbgmimedia]

Well in part, this is why the discussion was recorded. There are some challenges in identifying reliable sourcing. The prevalence of reliable stock is trending toward "more" and "better" in our opinion and we'd like to keep trying to influence that. Be sure to sign up for the SBGMI newsletter! Link is in the description.

[@jf7654]

@@sbgmimedia I am a out of state member. No other bee group is on the cutting edge you are on.

[@researcherAmateur]

Guys don't get it wrong.. l'm in Croatia, right in the middle of it. Carniolan queens are not very dark, like black. Actually they can be brown, gray and with tiger stripes. Just not yellow-orange and dark black. But their offspring are all grey. We call them "our gray bees". If l see some orange striped bees in the hive (very rare...) she is out of selection. No way l'm letting her drones fly...

[@hamptonroadsbeekeepers102]

Adding a numbered disc to my F1 queens is not a big deal as Cory seems to think it is. I use Titebond III for the glue. I want the F1's that I sell to the VA beekeepers to be distinctive in the hive so they don't get lost in the shuffle. James, please make sure Cory sees this. kzbin.info/www/bejne/oHLZkKZvi9eMf6s

[@researcherAmateur]

My father did alot of good selection without even thinking too much about it.. Over 50 years of selection for cleanest bottom boards after winter and big honey crop and healthy bees ofcourse.. living on an island.. I didn't see those brood diseases like chalk brood over a decade now. His bees deformed wing virus is not even visible. I'm sure it's in the hives but the wings don't get deformed. You have so much work ahead of you to do.. I'm glad it's not me. I'm more in inventing new methods for keeping them in droughts and long dearth