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[Margalot]

Hi,

not a bee-keeper myself but a humble chicken keeper! however read this article in my local paper yesterday and thought it might be of interest to you all

Michelle

 

http://www.swindonadvertiser.co.uk/news/8339536.Parasite_meets_its_match_in_a_dedicated_beekeeper/?ref=mr

[Old Speckled Hen]

More here

http://www.moraybeekeepers.co.uk/Stanton_Park.htm

Francis Ratnieks of Surrey university was researching into these "hygienic bees" as well but I don't know whether this has been abandoned in favour of yet more research into waggle dances.

Quite a bit of work is being done around the world into these bees that clear up brood parasitised by varroa.

As queens mate with many drones on their nuptial flight I don't know how it would work without artificially inseminating every queen in the country.

[Guest]

That might depend on whether the trait was associated with dominant or recessive genes?

 

Regards, RAB

[Old Speckled Hen]

Indeed.

If dominant one might expect a larger population of these bees?