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Re: Feral vs Domestic honey bees
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Mon, 28 Mar 2016 18:50:03 -0400
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Peter wrote:
  "We all know that most 'pure' A.m.m. or
Italians or Carniolans are usually very gentle - but mix then at your peril!
Seen it so many times."

I was told, on separate occasions, by a couple of locals that, back before WW2, the 'Black Italians' were savages.  I guess that they were a result of Italians imported to replace the allegedly extinct AMM crossing with the AMM that weren't extinct after all!

Chris

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