Lines 2025

Mother drone:, Friedrichskoog:

 B58(BZF):

      .22-B13l(DB) ley B601 (TR):

      .21. B67(BKS) hamh B365:

      .20- B148(BKS) ins B17(SG):

      19.-B11(PJ) ins B333(PJ)

Our drone mother for the 2025 breeding season comes for the last time from the valuable work of Detlev Biel. DB 58 (DB) cleared 100% of all cells in the hygiene test carried out several times. Its SMR value was tested by Dr Christoph Kaden and was a very good 78%. At the same time, as with all of Detlev Biel’s queens, it has all the typical Buckfast characteristics.

Breeding mothers

As in previous years, we have selected the best queens from last year’s (2024) B356(DB) drone colonies and breed from them. This selection bears my signature.  Breeding mothers are:

B19  (BZF) =    .23- B356(DB) frkg B12(DB)
B41  (BZF) =    .23- B356(DB) frkg B12(DB)

As usual, you can obtain stand-mated commercial queens, mated queens and selected queens from the middle/end of June from these breeding mothers. The latter have been laying eggs for at least 3 weeks – these queens have seen their daughters.