Hi Joe and Everyone,

>.... adaptations acquired thru
enviornment influences will have an affect on future
genetics thru selective matings.  The fit that have
adapted will have the advantage in matings and the un
fit will not.  Then also there is size related mating
prefrences which will have affect on selective
matings.

This is one of the very basic principles on which small cell regression is
based. But, for me, it brings up a very interesting question when turned in
the other direction:

Before foundation, when the world was composed of all small cell bees, how
did a few beekeepers and a little bit of large cell foundation make such a
large impact on the worlds bee populations. How did those large cell size
bees, which are inferior in mating, disease resistance, production,
survival, mite tolerance, etc., almost completely displace the small cell
ones? How could natural equilibrium be pushed so far out of bounds that it
requires a beekeepers intervention with regression to re-establish it?

Regards
Dennis
Hoping every's bees are well prepared for the coming winter which gives a
beekeeper a little more time to think about these kinds of things.

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