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Re: Do locally adapted honey bees exist in USA ?
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Gene Ash <[log in to unmask]>
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Fri, 25 Jan 2019 05:30:16 -0600
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a Pete B snip followed by > my comment.. 
I don't know if it was the longest lasting thread here at Bee-L but it continued from 26 Mar 2018 to 19 Apr 2018. Don't know if anyone's minds were changed, but it is interesting reading

>Natural culling is a wonderful mechanism for matching an animal species to a landscape.  I guess the question here is how you interpret the word 'adapt'?

>Personal experience.. I do like to raise a few queens and especially those from a reputable II source that I can cross with my own stock.  A couple of years ago I ask Sue C. about getting some of her II CARNI stock and she told me she did not think it would work so well in the hot Texas summer.... For me it would have been interesting to see how the crosses would have done. She was evidently saying that some honeybees were 'not' so adaptable to a particular landscape.  I suspect you could make the same analogy to cordovans in a northern (colder) landscape.

Gene in Central Texas...

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