>
>
> >The present work demonstrated that DNA-based methods can provide accurate
> and powerful
> tools for the entomological honey authentication at the subspecies/lineage
> level.


Pete, it's so easy to criticize...
There are researchers who are valiantly trying to maintain preservation
areas for pure Amm bee populations in Northern Europe, to which the
subspecies is well adapted.  But they are stymied by a few beekeepers who
insist upon bringing in foreign queens to stock their apiary in the middle
of a conservation area.

One way to help to preserve the subspecies is to put a market premium on
honey produced by the native race of bees.  This might encourage those few
non-cooperative beekeepers to join in.
-- 
Randy Oliver
Grass Valley, CA
www.ScientificBeekeeping.com

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