Trevor Weatherhead speaks of two advantages to importing Australian bees,
but doesn't mention the major disadvantage: their drones disseminate
non-resistant genes widely in the USA, which tends to suppress the development of
resistant stock, undermining both the feral population and US apiaries'
efforts to breed in resistance. Certainly re-queening quickly with locally
raised resistant stock would help, but how often does that happen in
practice?
Mike Bispham
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