100% British Mated Queens

 
British Mix
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May until September 2018 

• significant winter hardiness
• Consumes less stores
• low tendency to swarm
•  Very gentle
• defensive against invaders including wasps
• strong drive to collect pollen
• Long life span of the worker bees and queen
• excellent flight strength even in cold weather
• possibly hardiness against varroa ( Not Proved)
• Do Not Confuse These Queens With British Black AMM They are not.
  They are random grafted from hives that have over wintered well with good temperament  and open mated
• This is the laying pattern I like to see before I remove a newly mated queen from the mini mating Nucs. Each frame in half a Langstroth medium. It has been proved that queens allowed to lay for 21 days before being removed develop into great queens
  
  The British Mix is a Queen Grafted from 1 of 8 hives that have over wintered well with a laying Queen and to be found gentle and productive and suited to the area. I have not tracked mating or parentage just find them to be a pleasant bee to work with