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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bob Harrison [mailto:[log in to unmask]] 
> Sent: Friday, February 17, 2006 8:02 AM
> To: Informed Discussion of Beekeeping Issues and Bee Biology
> Subject: Re: [BEE-L] African genetics
> 
> 
> Hello Herve,
> I don't buy what you are selling! As for De Jong, Caron or 
> Winston. I would love to see any one of them go to Brazil and 
> keep a yard of around 400 hives on 8-10 frame of bees year 
> around and move five to ten times a year then come back and 
> say the AHb is what the U.S. beekeeper needs. Sure they peek 
> in hives on a nice day and report to us only the positive 
> information or keep weak nucs like Dr. Taylor. I am very 
> aware of the way those bees are kept on permanent locations 
> in Brazil. Very carefully with a lot of smoke and body armor. 
> Walk away splits. Unknown genetics so beekeeper beware. 
> Beekeepers in Brazil have adjusted to working AHB. AHb has 
> not been tamed. Bob

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