> but am constrained by the thought that to maintain such, I will have
> to buy my queens from the established Russian bee consortium.
Unless they have stopped selecting stock, I would think that annual
queen purchases would be beneficial to improve any beekeeper's stock
and maintain diversity, no matter how pure their own stock may be.
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