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Re: Can We Consider Honey Bees to be Domesticated?
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Chris Slade <[log in to unmask]>
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Informed Discussion of Beekeeping Issues and Bee Biology <[log in to unmask]>
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Fri, 2 Mar 2007 15:07:43 EST
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In a message dated 01/03/2007 18:23:02 GMT Standard Time,  
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what  about: 'creating a dependency so that the animal loses its 
> ability to  live in
> the wild'?
Please explain how you do that with  bees?



Expose it to exotic pests parasites and diseases to which it has no innate  
coping strategy and so thus becomes dependant on human intervention for its  
survival.
   

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