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Re: Can We Consider Honey Bees to be Domesticated?
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Peter Edwards <[log in to unmask]>
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Informed Discussion of Beekeeping Issues and Bee Biology <[log in to unmask]>
Date:
Thu, 1 Mar 2007 20:14:15 -0000
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I wrote:
>> what about: 'creating a dependency so that the animal loses its ability 
>> to live in
>> the wild'?
Bill asked:
> Please explain how you do that with bees?

I can't believe that you asked that question!
Let me ask: 'How many colonies in the US could live without the intervention 
and support (!) of beekeepers?'

Peter

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