In message <[log in to unmask]>, Gavin Ramsay 
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>Didn't you also say that another beekeeper was seeing stock with 
>Buckfast parentage particularly badly affected?


I think we both know this case. I understand that most of the unit 
involved was affected, and that he had a considerable number of Buckfast 
of Greek bred origin and crosses off them. The beekeeper did indeed tell 
that he could predict the worst ones before opening them from their 
origin, and that those would be the Buckfasts.

As an aside I too experimented with that stock some years ago and found 
it ill adapted to our local area and did away with it. That being so, 
and EFB being in many ways a stress related disorder, perhaps they have 
been even more stressed than the other types. Buckfast is very rarely 
used around here in any of its disparate incarnations as none have 
proved suitable for the area, so yes, it may be more susceptible to 
disease or it may be more stressed. Sample size too small for any firm 
conclusions other than those limited ones which can be drawn from the 
single beekeeper example.

-- 
Murray McGregor

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