On 26-Jul-17, at 9:13 AM, Christina Wahl wrote:

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> Chris, what do you mean when you say "pure bred bees"?  And what do  
> you mean when you claim bad behavior is "regression towards the mean"?
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Hi Christina, Chris & All

Several years ago, I helped hive a swarm(actually I put a box of comb  
down beside a swarm that lighted on a pile of dirt & the bees walked  
in) for a neighbour of my son in Tipperary County Ireland.  These bees  
became the only bees that had survived for several years and became  
the source for her now 6 hives.   At the time I assumed they were AMM  
as they were dark & mean little buggers once they became settled into  
their new home.  This year when we visited a few weeks ago I was told  
that the beekeeper had just requeened with buckfast queens.  I found  
out that was incorrect because after talking to her she told me that  
the original swarm must have been buckfast(my memory tells me they  
were dark and not like the buckfast bees bred by the U of Guelph here  
in Ontario) and that's why they were mean, so she requeened with  
locally available AMM queens(surely not pure).  I don't know where she  
got her info but I know that many in Ireland are opposed to Buckfast  
Italians etc, and favour the native bee AMM

Bob Darrell
Caledon Ontario
Canada
44N80W

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