Lloyd writes:

See Cobey's article "The extraordinary honey bee mating strategy..."

reply:

This is a three part article in the first three issues of 2003 American Bee
Journal. It has many interesting facts, many which I did not already know.
Thanks for the reference. She also says:

"It is *impossible* to maintain selected stock when queens randomly mate
with many drones of unknown genetic origin. ... we are in the *infancy
stages* of bee breeding." [emphasis mine]


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