Tag Archives: Sue Cobey

New World Carniolan Stock Maintenance Protocol

In May 2003 Ed completed Sue Cobey’s Queen Rearing course at the University of Ohio. At the time Sue had uploaded her New World Carniolan Stock Maintenance Protocol to her web site. Sue is now at the University of California … Continue reading

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Raising Honeybee Queens

We began raising our own queens after we discovered our bees had mites which had developed a resistance to both Apistan and Coumaphos in 2002. The option at that time was to use an even stronger chemical to kill the … Continue reading

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Beekeeper donates Nikon Microscope

We took our 1st instrumental insemination course at the University of California, Davis in 2007. In 2008 Mary went back to California to complete the advanced instrumental insemination course with Sue Cobey. Back at home we had setup a really … Continue reading

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New Carniolan Queens Hatching

We are pleased with our current crop of Carniolan Queens which have emerged since July 4th. They are daughters of our 2011 Susan Cobey breeder and they are very dark in color. Time will tell about their performance, but we … Continue reading

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