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Subject:	Re: Blundering Along in Bee Breeding
From:	randy oliver <[log in to unmask]>
Reply To:	Informed Discussion of Beekeeping Issues and Bee Biology <[log in to unmask]>
Date:	Wed, 25 Mar 2015 07:54:51 -0700
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>
> >This is only partially true. In their paper, Delaney, Seeley et al
> suggest several reasons why feral bees may be surviving.


The point may be that those feral mitotypes have indeed survived without
human intervention.  Those that didn't survive leave no trace.  Other than
in the fossil record, we only observe the evolutionary winners, not the
losers.

Our beekeeping industry is currently mainly propagating what prove to be
losers when released to fend for themselves.  But this is similar to any
domesticated animal, few of which could survive for long in the wild as a
breed.

-- 
Randy Oliver
Grass Valley, CA
www.ScientificBeekeeping.com

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