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> >I submit the following as evidence that breeding bees has a limited effect
Those results are contrary to the experience of the Calif queen producers
that started selecting for freeze-kill hygiene some years ago. Their rate
quickly went way up.
I also found freeze-kill hygiene to be easy to increase in a breeding
population when I selected for it in my stock back in the 1980's.
Likely Jose would indicate the same for their experience in Baton Rouge.
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Randy Oliver
Grass Valley, CA
www.ScientificBeekeeping.com
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