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Re: Do locally adapted honey bees exist in USA ?
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Seth Charbonneau <[log in to unmask]>
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Informed Discussion of Beekeeping Issues and Bee Biology <[log in to unmask]>
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Sun, 15 Apr 2018 22:41:12 -0400
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Randy> Actually, there is clear evidence that selective breeding and importation of gentle bee stocks was practiced in the Middle East over 3000 years ago.

PLB> What evidence is that?

Me> Tel Rehov  comes to mind

Industrial apiculture in the Jordan valley during Biblical times with Anatolian honeybees
http://www.pnas.org/content/pnas/early/2010/06/04/1003265107.full.pdf

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