Hi Bob

> Was Brother Adam wrong to try to improve the old Amm by importing genetics?
> Boy am I opening a can of worms here!

Not a can of worms, but enough of a baited hook to get me typing :-)

Bro Adam at no time ever tried to improve our UK Native bee, I have 
often wondered what our present situation would have been like if he had 
put his efforts in that direction, he was a clever guy, but he was not 
the saint than many in US place up on a pedestal.

He only ever set out to produce/synthesize a bee to suit his own 
purpose... That of producing heather honey on Dartmoor. He achieved his 
aim in good measure and I applaud his achievement, but he did a lot of 
damage to the dark European honey bee by declaring it extinct, as many 
believed him and started importing all sorts of exotic strains.


Regards & Best 73s, Dave Cushman, G8MZY
http://www.dave-cushman.net (http://website.lineone.net/~dave.cushman)
Short FallBack M/c, Build 7.01/2.01

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