Grant Gillard wrote: > I'm hardly the expert on bee genetics, but it seems to be a rather fine line between mongralizing and hybridization. All in the eye of the beholder. Both end up with the same thing, a new mix of genes from the original "pure" strains. In the case of the hybrid, you try to (and nature might) stabilize it there. If it is not stable, it reverts backwards. In the case of the mongrel, you (and nature) do not care and keep on hybridizing toward stability. Also, calling it a hybrid tends to sell better. An unintentional "Labrador-Collie-Shetland mix" sells better than a "mongrel" even though it clearly meets that definition. Bill Truesdell ( a pure Scot-English-French-Italian-German-Dutch-Norse-African hybrid) Bath, Maine ****************************************************** * Full guidelines for BEE-L posting are at: * * http://www.honeybeeworld.com/bee-l/guidelines.htm * ******************************************************