Members
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Dan Conlon
President 2 S. Mill River Rd. South Deerfield, MA 01373 warmcolors@verizon.net David Coy/Coy's Honey Farm, Inc Vice President 4595 Co. Rt 745 Jonesboro, AR 72401 970 East Wire Rd Perkinston, MS 39573 coyhoney@ymail.com Harry Fulton (Queens and Nucs; orders taken through Feb) Secretary 2011 Pumpkin Creek Road Brookville, MS 39739 (662)738-4611 bigbee.valley.bees@att.net Ronnie & Austin Smith Treasurer Smith Honey Farm 18 Honey Farm Lane Petal, MS 39465 (601)408-5465 smithhoneyfarm@gmail.com Hubert Tubbs Board of Directors P.O. Box 274 6009 Hwy 28 W. Mize, MS 39116 (601)382-2607 karen_tubbs@att.net Manley Bigalk Board of Directors 23226 20th St. Cresco, IA 52136 (563)547-4222, (563)380-4056 c grhoney@powerbank.net |
Steven Coy
(Queens and Nucs) 25 Pump Branch Road Wiggins, MS 39577 (601)928-5865 steven@coybeecompany.com www.coybeecompany.com Carl & Virginia Webb Board of Directors 349 Gastley Rd. Clarkesville, GA 30523 mtnhoneyga@gmail.com Larry Gandy 2341 SCR 83 Mize, MS 39116 gandybees@gmail.com Chris Hewitt & Lynn (Louie) Cereghino 12180 Richland Dr. Catharpin, VA 20143 Chris- (703)927-7611 hewitt.christopher@gmail.com Louie- (703)994-1769 louiecereghino@gmail.com www.richlandbees.com Dena Hodge 105 Wilberry Lane Moscow, TN 38057 (901)413-1460 wolfriverhoney@hotmail.com Doug & Shawn Way As It Should Bee Apiaries 22937 Roosevelt Road South Bend, Indiana 46614 Shawn@aisbee.com Doug@aisbee.com Office (574) 232-4472 Shawn Cell (574) 208-2141 Doug Cell (574) 286-6514 |
We’ve determined that in order for an operation to produce Russian stock both with genetic integrity and in sufficient numbers it’s necessary that each member must operate a minimum of two hundred colonies. Additionally, the entire outfit must be made up of Russian stock or be moving rapidly toward that goal.
It is required that mating yards, especially those that produce ‘selection’ queens, are isolated, and that they have well stocked drone source colonies of the appropriate lineage and in sufficient numbers. (We’ve set a ratio of one good drone source colony for twenty mating nucs. So, for example, with 24 well stocked drone source colonies representing two colonies from each of the twelve appropriate lines one could set out 480 mating nucs.)
It is required that mating yards, especially those that produce ‘selection’ queens, are isolated, and that they have well stocked drone source colonies of the appropriate lineage and in sufficient numbers. (We’ve set a ratio of one good drone source colony for twenty mating nucs. So, for example, with 24 well stocked drone source colonies representing two colonies from each of the twelve appropriate lines one could set out 480 mating nucs.)
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Like many beekeepers, our members innovate to accomplish the task at hand. Shaker washing mites from multiple samples. (left) |
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