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>>> it is a mistake to think of the perfect pollinator or the perfect crop.
Pollination is accomplished by a network of pollinators which supplement and complement each other.
I agree. I was just looking at it from the perspective of utilizing the honeybee only.
Mike in LA
On Tuesday, December 10, 2013 12:18 PM, randy oliver <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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> >Are our commercial queen breeders concentrating on the production of
> queens that are generally healthy and productive, or are they actively
> seeking to incorporate desired characteristics by providing appropriate
> drones which would saturate their drone congregation areas?
Since queen producers generally requeen their colonies with their own
queens, and since all the genetics in the drones come from the mother, by
default, all drone mother colonies would be producing drones from the
daughters of last season's breeder queens. So in answer to your second
question, yes.
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Randy Oliver
Grass Valley, CA
www.ScientificBeekeeping.com
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