Hi Peter & All,

>I hope that I am now on this beneficial spiral.
>

I like the fact that the Russian strain seems to always have a supersedure
Queen cell perpetually going in the brood nest and am hoping that this is a
dominate trait. I would love to have available Apis m.m. to work with but to
date have not been able to obtain. I am at present working with Caucasians
and Russians, they seem to be very similar in their character. I would like
to see a natural requeening of some colonies in the fall in the bees I keep.
I hope to get caught up in this spiral too.

. . ..   Keith Malone, Chugiak, Alaska USA, http://www.cer.org/,
c(((([ Caucasian Bee Keeper, http://takeoff.to/alaskahoney/,
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ApiarianBreedersGuild/

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