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Re: The Future of Bee Breeding
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Mike S <[log in to unmask]>
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Sun, 31 Dec 2017 05:00:53 +0000
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>>>  Can a bottleneck of this type be accomplished without allowing a lot of bee colonies to die or otherwise be eliminated from the breeding stock? 

<><><>  I think I remember Randy discussing that situation a while back.   He treats the non adaptive colonies for varro but does not include them in his selection program.  He just keeps them for regular production colonies and later replaces the queens with those he favors.

Mike in LA

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