Hi All
Still catching up with Emails after the Gormanston conference
Gavin Ramsay wrote on 22nd July...
> Isolation can be subtle. Bees in trees may prefer to
> colonise holes in trees and spaces in buildings rather
> than hives on the ground.
I had never considered preference for disposition of a cavity as a
character that could be recorded and selected for, has any work actually
been done on preference for cavity position?
> They may be partial to local mating rather than at
> distant drone congregation sites.
Have the phenomenae of Apiary Vicinity mating and Bubble assemblies been
studied in US ? I was of the opinion that such traits were closely
related to A. m. mellifera, rather than any of the hybrid races that
abound in US.
Regards & Best 73s, Dave Cushman, G8MZY
http://melliferabees.net Email: [log in to unmask]
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