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[Image of an Halictid Hello. Nice to see you. When I'm not working as an Information Systems Professional, I enjoy working with Honey Bee genetics and observing Honey Bee behavior. The amazing niche eusocial Hymenopterans (bees, wasps, ants) have in our Earthly habitat, fascinates me. Breeding Honey Bees is also fascinating and fun too! We use artificial insemination to control matings between desirable breeders. Did you know that bees naturally mate in the air, at a fair distance from their hive?

Beekeepers have had hard times in the last few decades with pathogens and lately, Colony Collapse Disorder. Poor colony health coupled with high losses cause many beekeepers to become discouraged. If older, experienced beekeepers give up beekeeping, who will teach the younger ones?

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Click to read the abstract of my poster presentation at the 1997 ESA Annual Meeting. That was a long time ago! 


Back in the 1990s I created the newsgroup sci.agriculture.beekeeping, and The Internet Apiculture and Beekeeping Archive at www.ibiblio.org, formerly metalab.unc.edu (formerly sunsite.unc.edu), where the newsgroup, listserv, and beekeeping FAQS, are archived. Although web-based forums have superceeded Usenet News in popularity, this archive is still filled with valuable beekeeping information.

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A new business venture, we're now producing Queen Honey Bees that are 
showing Varroa mite tolerance. We're also offering custom Instrumental Insemination services.
VP Queen Bees


A forum for bee breeding and using VSH expression for mite tolerance is here:
VSHBreeders.org


You can contact me at either of the two sites above. Thanks for visiting.

(butt jarnikiss --for Jonathan)

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