> You buy any queens from anybody, and in one or two generations they are mongrels.<
> Are they the same mongrels that they always were or are they mongrels with small changes at times?
Now you are getting down to the nitty gritty. That's what this thread is about. If there are locally adapted bees in the USA they are likely to be either some sort of mongrel with specific survival traits, or a refugee population like the one on Catalina Island. I would sure like to take a look at those Catalina bees.
PLB
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