> It's interesting to me to see the assertion that it takes an F2 hybrid
> to get from the spotty brood to an acceptable pattern.

I have been told that you should get away from the spotty brood in the F1.
As I am told, line breeding (inbreeding if you are not a queen breeder) is
such that you keep putting back the line to itself but when you outcross it
(F1) then you get back the hybrid vigour.

Trevor Weatherhead
AUSTRALIA
Coming to Apimondia in Australia in 2007?

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