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<blockquote data-quote="John B" data-source="post: 12911" data-attributes="member: 207"><p>I just got my copy of The Beekeeper. There is some pretty good stuff in there including something from me but one thing it doesn't seem to have any more is a letter to the editor section.There is no real way for anyone to challenge, question or discuss what has been written. I'm sure not everyone will agree with what I have written most of which comes from experience and observation.</p><p>It sometimes feels like we have run out of new things to say on this forum and I for one would like to have a bit of debate on articles from this or any other beekeeping magazine. The article that really got me thinking in the latest edition is about Avner Cain and how he breeds the next generation of queens. I don't know enough about the science quoted to be able to form a valid opinion on it. It may 100% correct and I agree with a lot of his conclusions especially letting good hives raise their own queens , something I All do with up to 20 or 30% of my own hives but as for regularly using swarm cells the only thing you will get from that is hives with a genetic propensity to swarm. All hives will swarm given the right stimulation but you can decrease this propensity markedly by rigourous selection against swarming. Most beekeepers have been doing this for a very long time so that these days swarming though still a major problem is not anything like it was in the past. Swarming is unsurprisingly one of the hardest things to breed out of hives completely and along with aggression one of the quickest to revert.</p><p>I guess what I'm trying to say is that even if bees are selecting the very best genetics to put into their swarm cells it will be their idea of the best, not mine.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="John B, post: 12911, member: 207"] I just got my copy of The Beekeeper. There is some pretty good stuff in there including something from me but one thing it doesn't seem to have any more is a letter to the editor section.There is no real way for anyone to challenge, question or discuss what has been written. I'm sure not everyone will agree with what I have written most of which comes from experience and observation. It sometimes feels like we have run out of new things to say on this forum and I for one would like to have a bit of debate on articles from this or any other beekeeping magazine. The article that really got me thinking in the latest edition is about Avner Cain and how he breeds the next generation of queens. I don't know enough about the science quoted to be able to form a valid opinion on it. It may 100% correct and I agree with a lot of his conclusions especially letting good hives raise their own queens , something I All do with up to 20 or 30% of my own hives but as for regularly using swarm cells the only thing you will get from that is hives with a genetic propensity to swarm. All hives will swarm given the right stimulation but you can decrease this propensity markedly by rigourous selection against swarming. Most beekeepers have been doing this for a very long time so that these days swarming though still a major problem is not anything like it was in the past. Swarming is unsurprisingly one of the hardest things to breed out of hives completely and along with aggression one of the quickest to revert. I guess what I'm trying to say is that even if bees are selecting the very best genetics to put into their swarm cells it will be their idea of the best, not mine. [/QUOTE]
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