> Herve writes:
>  color in honey bees is cosmetic and does not relate to any
> other performance factor.

Which makes sense. Otherwise I should be raising AHB in Maine since they 
are black. But AHB is not a cold weather bee.

Italians were the predominate bees in our area before dark bees, so most 
bees were yellow. Now they are a mix.

Genetics would have the major effect here, not environment. According to 
Herve's paper, hot climate bees are both black and yellow. Even on the 
Cape you find this. So latitude has little to do with color, just the 
race of the bee determines that.

Bill Truesdell
Bath, Maine

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