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Jean-Marie Van Dyck <[log in to unmask]>
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Discussion of Bee Biology <[log in to unmask]>
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Thu, 29 Feb 1996 11:16:41 +0100
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Hello all ...
 
On Tue, 27 Feb 1996, David Eyre wrote a list of bees lines evaluation :
I quite agree with him but ...
 
On Wed, 28 Feb 1996  Roy Nettlebeck <[log in to unmask]>
showed the real problem of these data ...
 
> The problem is, control of the data.   !!!
 
Some years ago I used his precess and record all my observations in a
RDB(RDO) VMS database (a lot of informations) but how do interpret them??
 
I remember a narrative from Yvon Achard, french beekeeper and breeder
who received some queens from Brother Adam breeding.  Next year,
Brother Adam (he was 92 old) spent a few days in his(Achard) wild yard
in the very beautiful Vercors country where these colonies were fitted
to breed.  Thinking that the best to choose the colony to breed was
brother Adam, Achard allowed him to come with him to visit them and
choose to take some larva.  Brother Adam is quite and silent.  The
visit began and the colonies were inspected.  Really good colonies,
quite, almost no fume and no one sting, splendid compact brood covered
with quite bees ...  Brother Adam looked ...  Achard : This ?  Brother
Adam said nothing, his head said "No" ! Ok ...  Next hive, the same
beautiful bees : (Achard) This ?  ...(BA) "No" ...(Achard) Ho ! And so
on ... And for one hive, apparently no different from the others,
after a few observation seconds and without Achard question, B. Adam
said nothing but his forefinger said "This"! And Achard "Why?" And B.
Adam just made a small impossibility gesture : His own computer had
made the decision : too difficult to explain why.
 
And Achard said to conclude: this breeding queens were really very
good on all aspects !
 
This to give us a little humility sentiment (my mind!) !
 
Personnally, a good program will interest me !
 
Cheers
 
Jean-Marie <[log in to unmask]>

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