Chris writes:
Is colour the only criterion by which you judge whether the
bees are  'Italian' or not?  The darker colour could be
selected for rapidly within a  race if it was advantageous
eg living higher.

Reply:
For old mediterranean color types of italian there is a
range, like with old caucasian like/similar, there is a
range/spread, and native bees FWIW if one believes,
depending upon what one consideres native and how long one
has to live in an area to be native.

Rapid selection of color means nothing in a way, like
mongrelization means nothing except both get results FWIW.
It's the holding of traits, once pressure is let off for
permanency that counts for the long haul, along with
uniformity and other. So in following the bees and their
needs, sustaining uniformity is the big key for following
what is needed to be done to know you are making headway.
ONce there like I said things start falling into place.

Dee

 


 
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