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Laurence Edwards inspects a calm colony without a veil, showing strong brood and zero defensive reaction. He credits the gentleness to respect and genetics, recommending Buckfast queens to requeen aggressive hives and breed out aggression.
Laurence Edwards inspects a calm colony without a veil, showing strong brood and zero defensive reaction. He credits the gentleness to respect and genetics, recommending Buckfast queens to requeen aggressive hives and breed out aggression.
I'm going to inspect this nuc of bees without the veil. So these bees are super, super chilled. There's a really good flow on at the moment. The bees are happy. And if you treat the bees with respect, but more importantly than that, get yourself the right genetics, you can have bees like this as well. We have got a brood box full to the brim with beautiful brood, and I'm coming in here at the moment and the bees just do not care that I'm going in, breaking open the brood nest, and inspecting them like this. Super chilled out. Now, if you've got angry bees, now is the perfect time to requeen them, to get some good Buckfast genetics in there. And what it will mean is that next year you will be able to do something like this.
