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What's Going Wrong With Our Queens? Roger Patterson

A lecture given by Roger Patterson at the 2018 National Honey Show entitled "What is Going Wrong With Our Queens?" The National Honey Show gratefully acknowledge the Worshipful Company of Wax Chandlers for their support and Thorne for their sponsorship. An overview of the current queen problems that are detailed Here with some suggested ways of dealing with them. Despite denial by some “experts”, many beekeepers worldwide are experiencing unexplained queen failures, queens “disappearing” and the supersedure of young queens during the summer. This could mean that colonies may swarm on supersedure cells, or if not dealt with, can be terminal for the colony. These problems have only recently appeared at a high level, since about the turn of the century. The problem is that newer beekeepers regularly see problems and don't understand they aren't natural. There has been little research done and the best the beekeeper can do is recognise the symptoms and manage their bees accordingly. This presentation is regularly updated and gives examples of real cases. This will be the first presentation in the "mini programme". Roger Patterson started keeping bees in his native West Sussex in 1963. He is a practical beekeeper who has learnt a lot by observing bees and beekeepers. Roger has been a demonstrator at the Wisborough Green BKA teaching apiary for over 40 years and is currently the Apiary Manager, where there are normally more than 30 colonies for tuition. For about 15 years he had 130 colonies of his own, but is now down to around 25. In addition to writing, Roger speaks and demonstrates widely on the practical aspects of beekeeping, where he is usually seen with his well known border collie Nell. He owns and runs the Dave Cushman website, which is considered to be one of the world's most comprehensive beekeeping websites.