{"id":120,"date":"2010-04-11T11:31:43","date_gmt":"2010-04-11T15:31:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.westnyackhoney.com\/bees\/?p=120"},"modified":"2010-04-11T11:31:43","modified_gmt":"2010-04-11T15:31:43","slug":"italian-russian-hybrid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.westnyackhoney.com\/bees\/italian-russian-hybrid\/","title":{"rendered":"Italian? Russian? Hybrid???"},"content":{"rendered":"

I have installed my new “Survivor Italians”. They are pooping all over the front of the hive and I am now a little worried about nosema. I hope they settle down and get their digestive tracks back to normal.<\/p>\n

I am a little concerned about the races of my bees. I say races because the bright gold Italians that I just received show that my existing boxes are anything other than Italian.<\/p>\n

When I first got my nucs last year, the bees were all golden yellow, but after a few months they darkened up. I was concerned that I had changed race, but I also thought that the older bees might be darker than the young ones. For a long time I had some dark bees and some lighter bees.<\/p>\n

My hives each swarmed last year. So there was some mating going on, but with whom?<\/p>\n

Now, looking at my old bees compared to my new bees, I am pretty sure that the was a Russian drone somewhere along the line and either my original queens or one of her successors had some Russian sperm stored away.<\/p>\n

Martha is much darker than Connie who is much darker than my new hives (Ethel and Justine).<\/p>\n

Here is Connie:
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\nHere is Martha:
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\nAnd here is one of the new bees from Justine:
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It’s had to get a closeup of the bees, but I think you can see how dark Martha is. You can also see that Connie is darker than Justine, although has more in common.<\/p>\n

Justine’s bees are smaller than with Connie or Martha, too, but that could be that I’ve been feeding Connie and Martha a gallon a week for the past month. The new hives have gone through 6 quarts each in two days, so they should be fat, too. I hope that the nosema is not too bad (you can see the poop in the last picture).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I have installed my new “Survivor Italians”. They are pooping all over the front of the hive and I am now a little worried about nosema. I hope they settle down and get their digestive tracks back to normal. I am a little concerned about the races of my bees. I say races because the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.westnyackhoney.com\/bees\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.westnyackhoney.com\/bees\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.westnyackhoney.com\/bees\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.westnyackhoney.com\/bees\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.westnyackhoney.com\/bees\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=120"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.westnyackhoney.com\/bees\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.westnyackhoney.com\/bees\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.westnyackhoney.com\/bees\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.westnyackhoney.com\/bees\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}