In my previous post I referred to the effort of bee breeders. Actually, I feel that little has been "accomplished" through bee breeding. In support of this view, I quote:

> Let it first be recognized that three thousand years of combined effort of all the beekeepers of all countries working independently, and working cooperatively, with the one-handled tool of female selection have not availed sufficient change in the honeybee, either in form or in function, to enable us to discover any certain difference. 

> If the Roman poet Virgil could live again, and visit representative apiaries in Italy and America today, he would presumably notice so little change in the bees he sees that he would hardly guess that our stocks are two thousand years removed from his that he sang about in the Fourth Book of the Georgics. 

WATSON, L. R. 1933. As I see the old bee. American Bee Journal, 73, 48–49.

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