Bee genetics, colony quality, queen evaluation, and survivor stock selection. We don't keep bees that can't hold their own in Texas conditions. Everything in this section comes back to one question: can the colony take care of itself? That means mites it can manage, brood it keeps clean, and a queen that lays a tight pattern through a brutal summer. We breed and select for survivability first, then disease resistance, then queen quality, and honey somewhere after that. The articles here cover how we read those traits, why we requeen instead of medicate, and what separates hygienic stock from the bees that just got lucky.
