Selection Methods for Honey Bee Breeding

The selection and breeding of honey bees is perhaps the best long term and sustainable solution to the current issues facing beekeepers. Honey bee breeding poses unique challenges in that selection is at the colony and population level. This video presents a review of the complexities and basic selection methods. One of the most successful bee breeding programs, the Page-Laidlaw Closed Population Breeding Program, is described. Beekeepers can implement this program in working toward establishing and maintaining honey bee stocks that are productive, express increased resistance to pests and pathogens, and well adapted to their environment.

[Martinnorden]

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[nobertakoto]

Thanks for the information, I would like to know the relevance of colour selection as an important genetic trait .

[beebruns]

merci a vous 3 pour cette vidéo super intéressante

[neilbush]

Was hoping you would mention the ideal distance and positioning of drone population, also I wonder if drones Have a greater influence on some traits than the queen, such as in temperment. Because our typical feral colonies here in Australia cause the progeny of gentle bees to rapidly deteriorate unless as In my breeding program where I am 2km from another apiary my vicious productive hives improve temperament.

[bamabeesqueens]

Do you feed the bees any pollen sub or sugar syrup?
Do you over winter in single or double brood nest?
The bees that are culled. Do you just requeen?

[stevejung]

Thanks for your great video which I was really thirsty for.

I am now developing a royal jelly specific breeder queen with instrumental insemination but the problem is to make a balancing between keeping genetic diversity and pursuing the traits having user-specific characteristics.

This is my dilemma on hand. My current back-up plan for this is sourcing new queens from outside every time.

Any other ideas?

[geraldthuo]

Bee Breeders Community Forest Association's innovation of breeding bees colonies and translocate them to arid and semi-arid counties forest national parks and ranches is one of the country's benefits particularly in pollination and food security

[jordanlyon]

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[earlmoorman]

The bees were doing great with out us trying to make a perfect queen don't complicate