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Bee coloration
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"Adrian M. Wenner" <[log in to unmask]>
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Informed Discussion of Beekeeping Issues and Bee Biology <[log in to unmask]>
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Thu, 19 Jan 2006 12:17:38 -0800
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On Jan 19, 2006, at 10:31 AM, Mike Stoops wrote:

> Peter Borst <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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> Body color is a very unreliable characteristic for identification of 
> AHB.


    Peter is correct on that statement.  My good friend, Harry Laidlaw 
(bee geneticist but now deceased) told me he could take a colony of any 
one color of bees and turn it into a colony of a very different color 
within a few generations.

									Adrian

Adrian M. Wenner		(805) 963-8508 (home office phone)
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