Belgium Dark Bees

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.

Data was to big, this is me with the bees, these are very gentle.

Hi Kai,

What kind of measurement? Wings? I have the wings results of these queens and I can email them. Problem is, that the mating station is not always pure. So this queen was mated pure for 76%. So in theorie 15 mellifera drones and 5 other specie drones. But maybe you have a amm drone that gives not the right wings. So these bees are now tested by DNA.

About the mating station, this year they did pretty well. From the first mating session 70% was mated pure according to the wings. From the second session I don't know. I have to say the organization is growing with bees and volunteers and the weather was bad. As we know Dark bees doing well with bad weather, they even think they mate with bad weather.

Mathijs.

Thank you!