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> Could the black bee in the US of the 1800s be a different bee than the Amm found in the UK today?
I often wonder that.  AMM's cover such a range of geography and climate 
that they are not all the same.  And these days they vary even more 
because they all carry differing amounts of exotic genes.  Can it be 
assumed that the reason Americans call them "German Blacks" is because 
the majority were imported by German settlers rather than Brits.  If 
that were the case they would presumably be better suited to a 
continental than a maritime climate and might have quite different 
traits the the bees that I, for one, am familiar with.

Steve Rose  UK

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