27) Cory Stevens (US)

07/16/24 • 22 min

Cory Stevens is a VSH queen breeder from Missouri, USA. He has a business called Steven’s Bee Company which offers AI VSH breeder queens, VSH virgin queens and raw honey free of miticides and antibiotics.

Cory's Website and Facebook
https://www.stevensbeeco.com/
https://www.facebook.com/stevensbeeco

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This podcast is proudly brought to you by Brent Nixon at Nixon Queen Bees in Ballarat Australia. Email Brent at [email protected]

00:00 Introduction

1:50 Guest question - Matt Crane - Is there a correlation between colour and VSH?

3:20 Guest question - Steve Sammut - Is there a correlation between UBeeO and VSH?

5:00 Guest question - Paul Roder - Is there a correlation between bald brood and VHS?

7:00 Cory’s commercial program in which he sends out breeders and gets back high performing F1s

8:50 How the F1s in the program are assessed

10:07 UbeeO and overwintering

12:53 Harbo Assay

13:42 Are F1s in the program treated?

17:16 What traits are desirable in returning F1s?

19:10 Colour and VSH - Harbo

Episode Music

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Cory's Website and Facebook
https://www.stevensbeeco.com/
https://www.facebook.com/stevensbeeco

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This podcast is proudly brought to you by Brent Nixon at Nixon Queen Bees in Ballarat Australia. Email Brent at [email protected]

00:00 Introduction

1:50 Guest question - Matt Crane - Is there a correlation between colour and VSH?

3:20 Guest question - Steve Sammut - Is there a correlation between UBeeO and VSH?

5:00 Guest question - Paul Roder - Is there a correlation between bald brood and VHS?

7:00 Cory’s commercial program in which he sends out breeders and gets back high performing F1s

8:50 How the F1s in the program are assessed

10:07 UbeeO and overwintering

12:53 Harbo Assay

13:42 Are F1s in the program treated?

17:16 What traits are desirable in returning F1s?

19:10 Colour and VSH - Harbo

Episode Music

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26) Mary Lacksen (US)

Mary is in Sparta Georgia and has a business called BeeCo Apiaries. Together with her daughter, Mary sells honey, nucs and small scale locally mated queens.

2:17 Getting into queen rearing

5:25 Lines of queens Mary uses

7:30 Survivor stock

8:15 Cell raising method

11:30 Mating nucs

13:30 Advice to people who are thinking of getting into queen rearing as a sideline

15:50 What Mary is offering in her business this season

17:57 Where to find Mary

Mary’s Facebook

https://www.facebook.com/beecoapiaries

Mary’s Website

https://www.beecoapiaries.com/

Mary’s Instagram

https://www.instagram.com/beecoapiaries/

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28) Ron Clarke and Rob Manning (AU)

Rob and Ron have been working together in the West Australian bee industry for many years. Together they run a breeding program using instrumental insemination which Ron learnt from Gretchen Wheen and Sue Cobey. In this episode we discuss bee breeding, the Rottnest program, Joe Horner’s drone rearing and the story of the Karri tree, which Rob is writing a book about.

1:30 When Rob and Ron started working together

3:14 Rottnest breeding program

5:14 Gretchen Wheen and Mathilde 'Tilly' Kühnert

7:14 When Ron Learnt Instrumental insemination

7:52 Sue Cobey visits Australia in 2009

9:33 Challenges of Instrumental insemination

12:00 Joe Horner’s drone rearing system

14:02 Drone drift

15:37 Queens you can get from Rob and Ron

19:20 Rob’s book on the Karri forest in Western Australia

22:29 Baiting

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