>
> >Can someone please explain why this highly successful invasive is still
> not being studied with an eye towards “taming” the unpleasant parts out, as
> there already are some places such as Puerto Rico and my local “docile”
> neighborhoods where this is already taking place without human guides?
Ruth, I don't understand how you come to make that claim.
Danny Weaver has been doing such selective breeding for many years, and has
been closely watched by the industry.
Researchers (esp. Rivera-Marchand) are also quite interested in figuring
out what's up with the Puerto Rican bees, and identifying the genes
involved, click here
<https://bmcgenet.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/1471-2156-14-65> for a
good list of citations.
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Randy Oliver
Grass Valley, CA
www.ScientificBeekeeping.com
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