On Jan 19, 2006, at 10:31 AM, Mike Stoops wrote:
> Peter Borst <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> Body color is a very unreliable characteristic for identification of
> AHB.
Peter is correct on that statement. My good friend, Harry Laidlaw
(bee geneticist but now deceased) told me he could take a colony of any
one color of bees and turn it into a colony of a very different color
within a few generations.
Adrian
Adrian M. Wenner (805) 963-8508 (home office phone)
967 Garcia Road [log in to unmask]
Santa Barbara, CA 93103 www.beesource.com/pov/wenner/index.htm
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