In a message dated 1/24/03 11:03:03 PM Central Standard Time,
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<<
 This is the case in MHO as we insist on moving "stocks" from everywhere to
everywhere, therefore
 creating a bee environment that is prone to an amalgam of ills.
  >>

This was a point/question I brought up a couple years ago at the Tennessee
Beekeepers meeting and while I understand the answer, I still wonder If it
would be better to try it.

It seems to me that if Allen has bees that through various Genetics does well
in Canada, that Allen should raise some queens and use them.  I realize that
the further north one goes the later in the year it is to get everything
going. But It just seems to me that "Northern Bees" that do well in that
environment should be selected and distributed there. While "Southern Bees'"
would do better in the South.  Now maybe in the end the genetics have been
manipulated enough that there really are no longer Southern and Northern
Bees, just bees, and certian problems are harder depending on environment.

Tim Morris