Buckfast VSH+ Real Cells
The use of selected real cells is functional to a genetic improvement spread not only maternally but also paternally.
This offers the opportunity to prepare colonies used as a male line to saturate their fertilization apiaries and add in their fleet stretches of varroa resistance and hygienic behavior thanks to normal controlled natural fertilization.
Buckfast VSH+ Real Cells
The use of selected real cells is functional to a genetic improvement spread not only maternally but also paternally.
This offers the opportunity to prepare colonies used as a male line to saturate their fertilization apiaries and add in their fleet stretches of varroa resistance and hygienic behavior thanks to normal controlled natural fertilization.
In order to include varroa resistance characters in its fleet, tenuta Ritiro proposes to its partners the use of real cells from lines that have a high level of transmissibility in the offspring of HYG+, SMR, Decapping. Once fertilized in their range (even not isolated), these F1 queens will transmit their mother’s genetic heritage paternally, thus increasing the health of their bee park in subsequent matings.
The increase in characters related to the health of bees must be constantly measured with the Pin-Test.