> homage to their history
I get that. In the morning I reminisce about the history of my long lost hair. But seriously, in order for names to be useful they have to stand for things. Take the plumcot: a cross between and apricot and a plum. Obviously that is different from both an apricot and a plum. But there are other crosses: the aprium (more apricot than plum) and the pluot (more plum than apricot). At some point, someone is going to hold one of these fruits in their hand and say "just how much apricot is in this plumcot?" And the answer is, just eat it. If the honey bee of the USA is a cross between Italian and Carniolan, who cares if it's more one than the other? Who cares if it is 3% A. m. m or 3% scut? As has been said many times, there is enough variation within the breed (from hive to hive) to make it all but pointless to characterize the bees of the USA as anything other than Carnitalians.
PLB
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