No amount of generations will ordain a honey bee queen as local. Neither the USDA nor any authority has adopted a definition. The Western honey bee will forever be an invasive species in the US. I agree that the only important issue is what traits are essential and whether one can breed them. The rest of the discussion is intellectual philosophizing, citing genetic minutiae in a lightly veiled form of dueling.
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