Hi,
I will show a few picture of one of my Belgium Dark colonies. The queen has it's origin in Chimay and is mated in Northern Belgium in the province Limburg on the mating station of Zwartebij.org.
I had 6 queens out of 6 who where mated. One had starved, 2 where mated pure for 50%, 2 for 70% and 1 95% according to there wings. In the first mating session 70% was mated pure. Bees know will be researched on DNA.
The queen on the photo is mated pure for 76% according to there wings, so if you so something which doesn’t look pure, that’s probably the reason.
What’s the reason the Belgium Dark bees are placed in the hybrid section of this forum?
Mathijs.