Mike writes:
That comes from the integration of different lines of a
strain of 
bee; the more lines utilized, the greater the variability.


Reply:
Unfortunately, in the real world Nature does not work with
complex mongrels. Nature works with simple hybrids breeding
into and out of climatic areas in accordance with latitude
and longitude of given local areas. So to get greater
variability in Nature you have smaller and to have less
variability you have bigger, like going up to the top of a
mountain for less pasture and down again to the lowlands
for more pasture. Also the color variation is less this way
when looking at the tergits on your honeybees, so you can
tell which ways your bees are breeding; but this also takes
time with acclimitization again which many will have to do.

Respectfully submitted,

Dee A. Lusby
Small Cell Commercial Beekeeper
Moyza, Arizona
http;//group.yahoo.com/group/organicbeekeepers/



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