Allen wrote:
This is a complex question, and I think that calculating distributions is a
bit of overkill in dealing with a real beeyard situation.

I tend to agree. What is lacking in the posts I have seen is the effect of 
crossing races. It is common when mixing different races to have offspring 
that have characteristics totally different from either parents. Until this 
issue is addressed looking at the type of distribution-although interesting 
and possibly useful down the road- would be a secondary concern. This will 
be especially evident with a yugo/Italian combo.
BTW I am becoming more and more convinced that if you have a good 
concentration of hives in a location and put the nucs there, you will get 
drones mostly from the adjacent hives rather than those a mile or so 
away..even though I have read the queen mates a little over a mile away from 
the colony generally.
John Horton

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