Adrian writes:
My good friend, Harry Laidlaw (bee geneticist but now
deceased) told me he could take a colony of any one color
of bees and turn it into a colony of a very different color
within a few generations.

Reply:
This may be true if one were just talking color, but we are
not! We are talking all characteristics, for whole pot, at
the same time. That means, size, body uniformity, and
coloration, besides behaviour traits, being deal with at
the same time, for how they, our honey bees act in the
field. You change one thing and it is a domino effect for
something else will always change like it or not.

Respectfully submitted,

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


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