In a message dated 14/10/2007 13:21:27 GMT Standard Time,  
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We are  truly breeding bees that will be stable 
in our areas Those bees would not  survive unless we did breed for change 
or let nature do it in time, say a  few thousand years minimum.Yours are 
native and  stable.



We are aiming for native and stable, which is what we once had, but have  
been bedevilled by imports. I don't think you are likely to achieve a local  
version of native and stable unless you stop moving bees (especially queens)  
around as much as appears to happen in the USA.  As most of the country  seems to 
be uninhabitable for much of each year, the climate would exert strong  
selective pressure and I think the objectives could be achieved in decades  rather 
then millennia.
 
Chris



   

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