I don't see how people can maintain the notions of genetic diversity and genetic purity at the same time. Purity is about exclusion, diversity is inclusion. They seem to want their bees as "diverse" as possible, so long as they aren't mixed with bees from across the border.

Depraw wrote in 1965:

> Both color and behavior in bees are notoriously variable; it is well known, for instance, that Italian bees from the north of Italy are as dark as the Carniolans from the south of Austria, and that yellow color occurs not infrequently in southeastern European bees. Though differences in color and behavior do exist, they are not necessarily of taxonomic importance.

PLB

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