EVALUATING DIFFERENT STRAINS OF HONEY BEES

摘要

Using five strains of bees, survival was the selection key of choice. With the help of some matching grant funds from the Northeast SARE, a project was undertaken to evaluate different strains of bees. The major goal of this project was to try and identify specific strains of honey bees - which are commercially available to beekeepers - and will also perform, optimally in the Northeast, The crucial benchmark being survival, i.e. over wintering. There are numerous factors many of which are interrelated, that affect a colony's ability to survive. However, due to the limited scope of this project, survival was the factor we keyed in on.