first I think I should point out here is that the study referenced (to my understanding) was in Europe and therefore likely reflects the original 'races' of bees that inhabited Europe.  It would seem that the europeans have more of a cultural tie to particular races of bees than we do here in the US as the film 'more than honey' nicely demonstrated.   I would guess based on the location that in this study the term local MAY indicated basic apis m.m. stock.

we on this side of the pond of course rear mutts and the term locally adapted imho is more of a marketing term than anything that represents useful information.  Of course the conclusion of the study on one side of the Atlantic has now been 'globalized' to this side of the pond for everyone wanting to sell 'locally adapted' stock.  I suspect that there are folks here working on 'winter hardy' stock which is of course a much cleaner attribute to select for.

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