Breeding the Honeybee – Détails, épisodes et analyse

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21) Ian Steppler (CA)

Épisode 21

jeudi 18 janvier 2024 • Durée 27:47

Ian Steppler is a Canadian beekeeper who breeds his own line of bees. Ian has unique cell raising and mating nuc styles that are well suited to short season commercial beekeeping. In this episode Ian goes into his cell raising process and mating nucs as well as explaining why he raises his own queens. Ian has a YouTube channel called A Canadian Beekeeper’s Blog. In this episode we discuss a lot of the things that you can see in this video - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ouifrZvFn1U

00:00 Intro

2:18 Bringing in breeding stock

5:30 When Ian started raising his own stock

8:30 Cell builders

21:00 Mating nucs

You can follow Ian’s work on his YouTube Channel or on his website - https://www.stepplerfarms.com/

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20) Laurence Edwards (UK)

Épisode 20

dimanche 31 décembre 2023 • Durée 18:26

Laurence Edwards is a beekeeper based in Northern Wales. He runs a business called ‘Black Mountain Honey’ which produces honey, nucs and queens as well as other services.

https://www.youtube.com/@BlackMountainHoney

0:46 YouTubing

4:00 Buckfast and AMM

6:51 Duncan Simmons queens

8:47 UK mated queens

10:21 Variation in Buckfast lines

11:30 Cell building methods

14:00 How to find Laurence online

15:25 What is Laurence selling

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19) Leigh Slater (AU)

Épisode 19

lundi 11 décembre 2023 • Durée 20:28

Leigh Slater is a queen breeder and honey producer in Tasmania, Australia. For 63 years Leigh has been preserving a pure strain of the old English black bee (Apis mellifera mellifera). Back in the 70s Leigh aided beekeepers in England by helping them reestablish the line by sending queens from his protection zone. The black bee was first brought to Australia over 200 years ago by the English and was the first stain of european honeybee in Australia. Since then the strain has almost entirely been replaced by other strains such as the Italian strain. To my knowledge Leigh's apiary is the only one remaining with a pure AMM strain. The current official status as well as the future of this preservation is currently unclear.

Special thanks to Matthew Crane, Anita Long, Mick Palmer and Laurie Cowen for helping me put together this episode.

1:00 When Leigh started beekeeping

4:13 Preserving the black bee

7:05 taking the strain back to England

9:30 Attributes of the black bee

12:00 The Tasmanian program

15:30 Leatherwood honey

17:00 Ideal honey boxes

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18) Terry Meakin (IE)

Épisode 18

samedi 9 décembre 2023 • Durée 34:41

Terry has been keeping bees in Ireland since he was 7 years old and has over 30 years experience. Early in his career he spent time working with Peter Donovan at Buckfast Abbey, learning the methods of Brother Adam. Terry has a business called Wicklow Bees and Honey which provides queens, nucs and honey. County below Dublin.

4:00 Feeders and Brother Adam

6:30 Started queen rearing at 14

8:00 Irish honey bee

9:40 AMM nucs

10:00 Peter Donovan

11:30 Meeting Brother Adam

15:20 Peter Donovan’s photo book

17:10 Buckfast bee

20:10 Mating nucs

26:30 Dadant Hive

30:00 Patsy Bennett and the Teagasc Research Centre in Wexford

33:20 Where to find Terry

Terry's Website
https://wicklowbeesandhoney.wordpress.com/

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17) Dan Long (US)

Épisode 17

samedi 21 octobre 2023 • Durée 25:08

Dan Long has a business making 3D printed queen cages and other beekeeping applications. Dan’s business is called EZPZ. His main product is a cage suitable for the JZBZ cell cup.

4:00 Dan’s business

4:30 JZBZ system

5:10 First 3D printer

5:35 First attempt at making cages

6:07 Queen introduction

6:45 Candy plug

7:20 Queen cage trays

8:03 Banking

8:30 Different styles of cages

9:45 Writing on the cages

10:45 Wax mounts

12:30 Merrill tool box

14:25 Day tripper

19:50 JZBZ set

20:10 Queen catcher

22:30 Cell bars

23:10 Dan’s website

24:15 North American Honey Bee Expo vendor

EZPZ Website

https://ezpz.buzz/

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16) Tucka Saville (US)

Épisode 16

mercredi 27 septembre 2023 • Durée 17:01

Tucka Saville lives in Florida, USA. She raises queens, provides classes for queen catching and grafting and is a common public speaker at bee events and clubs. Her business can be found on Instagram @tucka bee.

1:20 What a Comfort hive is
2:48 Feeding
3:10 Comparison to Warre hives
3:37 Working frames in a Comfort hive
4:06 Top feeders
5:45 Sam Comfort and Michael Palmers’ cell builders
8:26 Using a swarm as a cell builder
9:20 Variation in queen colour
10:20 Selection of queens
11:15 Stacking mating nucs
12:40 Moving a Comfort hive
15:00 Queen raising classes
16:00 Where to find Tucka online

Tucka's Istagram
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15) Varroa and VSH Australia

Épisode 15

samedi 2 septembre 2023 • Durée 16:42

Varroa has been detected in the almond pollination in Australia. In this episode I interview Matt Petersen, Richard Sims and Corinne Jordan about Varroa and VSH. The interviews that are in this episode were recorded on the 1st and 2nd of September 2023. It's likely that the situation will change quickly after the release of this episode.

UPDATE - Since this episode aired the Australian government has changed our approach to varroa from eradication to management.

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Matt Petersen

Richard Sims

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Corinne Jordan

https://beegenetics.com.au/

Paul Roder

https://rockhamptonbees.com.au/

14) Paul Densem (NZ)

Épisode 14

mercredi 23 août 2023 • Durée 29:41

Paul Densem is a queen breeder based south-east of Christchurch in the Port Hills of Banks Peninsula New Zealand. Paul has created his own line of bees descending swarms that he caught when he first started beekeeping. Paul’s line of Italian bees have been selectively bred to produce high yields of honey and display calm temperaments. Paul’s business is Valley Apiaries. He offers queen bees for commercial and hobbyist beekeepers.

1:14 Paul’s Swarms

1:43 What Paul looks for in his queens

6:30 How long Paul worked on his bees until he was happy with them

7:20 How Paul got into breeding

9:20 What mating nucs Paul uses

10:40 Paul’s small amount of introduced stock

12:30 Diversifying genetics

12:45 Drones

13:10 The rearing system Paul uses

17:50 Paul’s climate

21:00 Where you can find Paul

21:44 Paul’s honey

23:20 Varroa

paul@valleybees.nz

https://www.facebook.com/ValleyApiariesNZ/

https://valleybees.nz/

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