BEE-L Archives

Informed Discussion of Beekeeping Issues and Bee Biology

BEE-L@COMMUNITY.LSOFT.COM
Options: Use Monospaced Font
Show Text Part by Default
Condense Mail Headers

Message: [<< First] [< Prev] [Next >] [Last >>]
Topic: [<< First] [< Prev] [Next >] [Last >>]
Author: [<< First] [< Prev] [Next >] [Last >>]

Print Reply
Mime-Version:
1.0
Content-Type:
text/plain; charset="UTF-8"
Date:
Wed, 28 Jan 2015 07:02:34 -0500
Reply-To:
Informed Discussion of Beekeeping Issues and Bee Biology <[log in to unmask]>
Subject:
"acclimatization"
Content-Transfer-Encoding:
quoted-printable
Message-ID:
<[log in to unmask]>
Sender:
Informed Discussion of Beekeeping Issues and Bee Biology <[log in to unmask]>
From:
Peter Loring Borst <[log in to unmask]>
Parts/Attachments:
text/plain (11 lines) 
Many people these days are promoting "locally adapted" bees and the term "acclimatization" has been heard in some circles. In his comprehensive book "Biogeography and Taxonomy of Honeybees" Ruttner states:

> European strains have retained their low swarming rate in tropical S America through centuries, although this renders them completely inferior in fitness, as was shown when the Africanized bee appeared as competitor. Transferred colonies usually maintain all their inherited behavioral inventory and all reports on "acclimatization" refer to nothing else but hybridization. 

PLB

             ***********************************************
The BEE-L mailing list is powered by L-Soft's renowned
LISTSERV(R) list management software.  For more information, go to:
http://www.lsoft.com/LISTSERV-powered.html

ATOM RSS1 RSS2