> but I do also hope that you do have life beyond Bee-L!
Thanks for the kind and thoughtful words. Really, all this discourse serves as a proving ground for ideas that may make their way into my articles in the American Bee Journal, which I hope everyone reads. The variety of the content has steadily increased to where there is probably something for everyone. Plus, the quality of the printing is fabulous. The glossy color photos that appear regularly on the cover are often breathtaking. As a photographer, I really appreciate the attention given to photo quality.
Actually, I have a full time job in a lab doing research into Reproductive Genomics (sperm and eggs). Additionally, I am current president of the FInger Lakes Beekeepers Club and a vice president of the Empire State Honey Producers Assn (ESHPA). As such, I am constantly promoting the keeping of bees, educating NewBees, and inquiring into the major issues that affect large producers and small alike. The small timers like to think they live in a different world than the bee truckers, but they don't.
We are all in this together. Most of the bees that sideliners have either come from swarms escaped from commercial bee yards, or they are packages purchased from commercial bee producers. Even if the beekeeper attempts to raise some sort of locally adapted subset of the national gene pool, the odds are the bees are continually outcrossing with the regional gene pool, so the bees of a given area are a distillation of the bees of the region, together with whatever maladies are going around.
In my view, the more we share information the better we all understand each other, the aspects of what we do and -- we hope -- the bigger picture. Onward!
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Peter L Borst
Cohen Lab
VRT Room T3001
Cornell University
Ithaca, NY
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Peter Loring Borst
128 Lieb Road
Spencer, NY 14883
607 280 4253
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