Begin forwarded message:From: <in...@russianbee.com>Subject: Huge SavingsDate: March 17, 2015 at 11:02:45 PM CDT
We are winding down to the end of the ordering season and guess what... We are overstocked. Rather than turn away our extra allotment of Carniolan bees, We're offering them at huge savings to you all. On all new orders;$95 1-9 packages$90 10-49 packages$85 50 or moreThese prices are good for both of our delivery weekends until available quantities are gone.Thank you,-Jason-*note*Prices good on any new orders starting 3-16. Cannot be combined with any other offers, coupons, or discounts. If you ordered packages earlier in the season, those quantities count towards the price tier discounting stated above, and will be manually adjusted as needed on any new purchases. This offer cannot be applied to prior purchases.
On Mar 18, 2015, at 9:09 AM, Joseph Bessetti <jbes...@hotmail.com> wrote:
Maybe I'm missing something? I don't see any evidence here that these packages include locally (Iowa) raised queens. These just look like packages shipped in from somewhere else to me.
Joe
From: h.adam.s...@gmail.com
Subject: [madbees] Fwd: Huge Savings
Date: Wed, 18 Mar 2015 08:52:54 -0500
To: mad...@googlegroups.com
If you are interested in ordering packages from DesMonies Iowa (about 2 hrs from here). Which in my opinion are better acclimated to our weather than packages from California.
and they are NOT selling Russian packages… don’t be mislead by their name. They are in the process of becoming one of the first to be able to offer Russian packages but that will not be for a few more years. They maintain multiple apiaries.
Begin forwarded message:From: <in...@russianbee.com>Subject: Huge SavingsDate: March 17, 2015 at 11:02:45 PM CDT
We are winding down to the end of the ordering season and guess what... We are overstocked. Rather than turn away our extra allotment of Carniolan bees, We're offering them at huge savings to you all. On all new orders;$95 1-9 packages$90 10-49 packages$85 50 or moreThese prices are good for both of our delivery weekends until available quantities are gone.Thank you,-Jason-*note*Prices good on any new orders starting 3-16. Cannot be combined with any other offers, coupons, or discounts. If you ordered packages earlier in the season, those quantities count towards the price tier discounting stated above, and will be manually adjusted as needed on any new purchases. This offer cannot be applied to prior purchases.
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To: "H. Adam Steinberg" <h.adam.s...@gmail.com>Subject: RE: Huge SavingsDate: March 19, 2015 at 10:45:02 AM CDT
For package bees, there are no bees that see Iowa winters. Even people who shake bees here in Iowa or Missouri or wherever are really shaking California bees. I.E. the hives have spent all winter out in California to stay big and overflowing so that when they are shipped back to their home state in March or April, the producer can shake the excess bees into packages. And the queens they use in those packages are again queens they have had shipped to them from California, Florida or another sun belt type state that is able to produce queens while hives here haven't begun producing drones. These packages I'm selling do happen to come straight from the fields in California and are brought directly to Iowa non-stop in our own climate controlled vehicle.
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Subject: Re: Huge Savings
From: "H. Adam Steinberg" <h.adam.s...@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, March 18, 2015 6:55 am
To: in...@russianbee.com
Jason, Are these your Iowa bees or are these California bees?
On Mar 17, 2015, at 11:02 PM, <in...@russianbee.com> <in...@russianbee.com> wrote:
We are winding down to the end of the ordering season and guess what... We are overstocked. Rather than turn away our extra allotment of bees, We're offering them at huge savings to you all. On all new orders;
$95 1-9 packages$90 10-49 packages$85 50 or moreThese prices are good for both of our delivery weekends until available quantities are gone.
visit us at www.russianbee.com
Thank you,-Jason-*note*Prices good on any new orders starting 3-16. Cannot be combined with any other offers, coupons, or discounts. If you ordered packages earlier in the season, those quantities count towards the price tier discounting stated above, and will be manually adjusted as needed on any new purchases. This offer cannot be applied to prior purchases.
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From: Joseph Bessetti <jbes...@hotmail.com>
To: "mad...@googlegroups.com" <mad...@googlegroups.com>
Sent: Thursday, March 19, 2015 1:18 PM
Subject: RE: [madbees] Fwd: Huge Savings
She does use various mite treatments, though.
From: Betsy True <bt...@wisc.edu>
To: mad...@googlegroups.com
Sent: Thursday, March 19, 2015 3:46 PM
Subject: Re: [madbees] Huge Savings
My brother in Outagamie county had a swarm come into a box in 2013. That colony survived the polar vortex winter of 2013/14. I split the hive in May of 2014 and allowed the queenless colony to raise their own queen. Both hives are alive today. Both are treatment-free and management-free. I plan on splitting both this May. If there's any extra honey i will harvest it for him then.
I have several hives of bees that are all descended from a hive we started from a package in 2008. And as much as people discuss mite tolerance and winter hardiness, what I've noticed in this line is the relative ease with which they split and supersede. When they are queenless, they rapidly get to the job of raising a new queen and do so successfully. Which kind of leads to the point I want to make: Maybe there are genetic traits that we are overlooking that are more important that mite control or winter hardiness. The propensity to swarm has a genetic component, maybe these "maternal" instincts do as well. Having a young queen going into winter is a strong predictor of winter survival. Maybe bees that naturally turn over their queens more frequently are advantageous in this respect. Just a thought, but I buy very few packages (generally none) and just split these lines and try to carry a 25% surplus of hives through each season. It seems to be a financially sound approach to maintaining a steady supply of hives.
I have several hives of bees that are all descended from a hive we started from a package in 2008. And as much as people discuss mite tolerance and winter hardiness, what I've noticed in this line is the relative ease with which they split and supersede. When they are queenless, they rapidly get to the job of raising a new queen and do so successfully. Which kind of leads to the point I want to make: Maybe there are genetic traits that we are overlooking that are more important that mite control or winter hardiness. The propensity to swarm has a genetic component, maybe these "maternal" instincts do as well. Having a young queen going into winter is a strong predictor of winter survival. Maybe bees that naturally turn over their queens more frequently are advantageous in this respect. Just a thought, but I buy very few packages (generally none) and just split these lines and try to carry a 25% surplus of hives through each season. It seems to be a financially sound approach to maintaining a steady supply of hives.
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