(JL)= Juhani Lundén, Peltolantie 83, FIN-34640 Mustajärvi

Pedigree 2013

Buckfast breeders

NoB29(JL)=.11-B06(JL) hauk Band Pmix;.09-B142(JL)haukB139(JL);.08-B142(JL)nat???;etc

NoB139(JL)=.11-B06(JL) hauk Band Pmix;.09-B142(JL)haukB139(JL);.08-B142(JL)nat???;etc

NoB58(JL)=.11-B05(JL) hauk B and Pmix;.09-B05(JL)nat???;.08-B109(JL)nat???;etc

NoB82(JL)=.10-B79(JL) hauk B71(JL);.08-B85(JL) nat ???;.06-R84(JL) ins Bmix06;etc.

Other

VSH carnica, from David Miksa Grovland, Florida

No7(JL)=no more data

No44(JL)=no more data

Primorski (Mini-Plus hives, normal evaluation impossible)

NoR153(JL)=.12-imq(P214(PJ)) hauk R116(JL);.10-P135(PJ) ins R85(JL);etc

Some other hives were used to make queens for export.

Drones

Haukkamaa mating station(hauk):

NoB147(JL)=.09-B149(JL)haukB139(JL);.06-15(JL)kurjB18(JL);.05-B126(JL) ins ppmix05(JL);etc

Dronehives (8) numbers: 10,38,50,53,61,64,121,132

Sister group sizes of the new 2013 queens in Lundén bee yards:

7: 2 queens

29: 9 queens

44: 19 queens

58: 6 queens

82: 3 queen

139: 9 queens

153: 11 queens

Comments by Juhani Lundén:

Because of the record rainy season 2012, the hives were small in spring 2013. The summer 2013 came early. Honeycrop was under normal all over Finland.

New for this season: no more than one nuc was made from each hive.

Droneline 147 is propably one of the best ever used.

There was no varroa treatment in 2013 (no treatments since 2008)