Hello All,
My last post was done quickly and after a long day on the road delivering
drums of honey in the Missouri Ozarks to the horse and buggy people. Was an
interesting day to say the least.

The first glaring mistake was the spelling of Steve Tabors name.

The second was that Page was not a student of Rothenbuhler but came to work
at the Rothenbuhler lab after Rothenbuhler's retirement. I should have done 
my
homework better. I apologize to the list.

Thanks for the two world renown bee researchers which emailed me pointing
out my error!

They also added the following information:

" Page was a student of Norman Gary and worked with Dr. Laidlaw in
developing the closed system breeding program"

I might add Page's book is a book I refer to often and one of the best books
on bee breeding and genetics around. Also the book Dann Purvis refers to
often in our conversations.

"Rothenbuhler was the pioneer of understanding the hygienic behavior
genetics and its relation to AFB"

 I think Dr. R. is best known in beekeeping circles for his belief that
through genetics AFB could become a minor issue . However I can name at
least two researchers which keep hives around with AFB trying to find the
bee which will tolerate AFB but a slippery slope and just when you think the
AFB resistant bee has been found the AFB reemerges and kills the hive.
Rothenbuhler came from the time period  when AFB almost wiped out
U.S. beekeeping .

bob


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