Gavin Said,
"I may have a vested interest in the answer, but is breeding really the 
problem or maybe simply the answer?  I hold the view that we have had too 
little breeding of bees in the UK, and that a tad more would go a long way 
to improving bee health."

I disagree Gavin.  Decreasing the gene pool is never a good idea and any 
breeding to compound the genes for a specific trait will also increase the 
liklihood that undesireable  traits or perhaps genes that are actually 
detrimental to the bee will also be compounded.  I apologize, the magazine 
is Discover not Discovery.   Other issues such as natural feed vs corn syrup 
feed and the stress of single source feeds such as is found in commercial 
pollinators  and transport stress is discussed as well.  I don't think it is 
a single issue but it looks like much has combined to form the perfect storm 
and that storm is killing our bees.

Coleene

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