2012年12月12日 · I would not be overworried about one strain of bees swarming versus another I have had Minnesota Hygienics swarm and Carniolans swarm. Swarming is a natural way for a colony to reproduce itself, and new packages will swarm especially if they are overfed. If your bees swarm don't be hard on yourself, just learn from it.

2019年5月17日 · Although German black bees have a wide abdomen which looks different from the more narrow, "torpedo" shaped abdomen of the Carniolan bee: IV. Расы (породы) и типы пчел Центральной Европы (photos comparing German black bees vs. Carniolan bees in this Russian article)

2017年3月29日 · I am contemplating Carniolan bees as opposed to Italian bees. I'd like some knowledgeable advice on this. We are in central Wisconsin, so our winters can get cold. It appears Carniolan's may be more gentle that Italians and may also create comb better as well as start their gathering faster which is all good.

2011年7月20日 · There is no problem with Carniolian bees. They work very similiar to Italians. Now the Russian bees are an entirely different animal. The swarm themselves to death. The beekeeping industry has been sold a bad set of goods with the Russian bee. Even in Russia the Primorski bees are considered trash can bees. Yes, they are resistant to mites.

2016年12月30日 · what are called russian bees in the usa are bees from eastern siberia near the sea of japan. they are descendants of a mixture of caucas bees with some italian and german black bee mixed in, the foundation stock was shipped east in the early days of the trans-siberia railroad. they were adapted over time to survive in a tough climate.

2005年1月26日 · The behavior comes from the Italian drones and the excess swarming from the Carniolan queen. This is another double example of a male and a female account. If it helps any, I got very good results with second generation Carniolan queens mated with Buckfast drones. I purchased a few Carniolan queens about 6 years ago.

2009年8月21日 · The New World Carniolan was originally established in 1982 by Susan Cobey and Tim Lawrence in California. Carniolan stock from across the U.S. and Canada was collected, back crossed, and evaluated to establish the foundation population. So there you have a little history on the new world carniolan.

2011年9月19日 · The Carniolan queens came from Full Bloom Apiaries in Connecticut, plus a couple of daughters from last year's queens. You can check with them but I believe I got some of their last shipment in August. I like the smaller clusters (and the smaller winter stores requirements) of the Carnis for the harsh winters here.

2020年10月29日 · Bob Binnie made a video about introducing Caucasian bees into his apiary, , and he bought Carniolan queens from Sue Cobey inseminated with Caucasian semen. She started the Carniolan New World project in 1981 and it currently has several universities involved. She is located in Washington state and probably will have true Carniolan queens available.

2018年8月13日 · Strachan's bees are carniolan. NWC are some of my favorite bees. I have only tried a small sample of saskatraz. I won't be breeding from the saskatraz stock. They will just be absorbed threw my normal re-queening process. I have been told that the canadian sask are much better than the open mated sask from CA.