>I have never had much faith in the idea of geographical natural selection over any short period of time but I do suspect that culling can remove not adaptive individuals quite quickly as can some folks individual management styles.

Our winters here are the great selector. That said I have had very good success with queens from Oklahoma for the last couple of years. This winter, which was record setting, every new queen in my overwintered nucs survived.

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