>The lines that they breed from are totally driven by market demand.
Let me add to that. Some producers choose from a rather uniform
population of their "line" of bees, developed over years. Those
queens are predictable.
However, when they bring in a new II queen to try out, her daughters
mate out with whatever drones are out there. The combination may
produce good colonies, or sometimes not. So buyers often get a bad
taste about a new line. Not the fault of the new line--but rather the
fault of mismatched mating.
Randy Oliver
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