> Pete, I know that you and I disagree on this.
I am not sure we do, exactly. In any case, I am a liberal. A true liberal hasn't got his mind made up about anything.
> But I feel that the evidence is very strong that there are feral populations of bees in the U.S.
Agreed, but following Zayed & Harpur I think that the high rate of recombination prevents excessive inbreeding, and produces adequate variation, in the commercial population as well.
PLB
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