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Re: Locally adapted?
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charles Linder <[log in to unmask]>
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Wed, 17 Sep 2014 20:59:54 -0500
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For a few years, I was somewhat concerned with the amount of package bees
being brought into the area each year. 400 +/-100.

Richard has a bit of a point in some areas,  sounds like his in particular
may be a concern,  but overall the percentage of packages distributed to non
migratory operations....(hobbyist)  is about 10% of the number of colonies.
If your in the Dakotas,  your hosed.....  no natives and lots of packages.

Here in IL  natives outnumber packaged 10-1 easy.... I would guess a lot of
Ohio is less than 10% packages,  but do know of a cpl of migratory large
scale users.



Charles

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