Grant Gillard wrote:
> I'm hardly the expert on bee genetics, but it seems to be a rather fine line between mongralizing and hybridization.  
All in the eye of the beholder. Both end up with the same thing, a new 
mix of genes from the original "pure" strains. In the case of the 
hybrid, you try to (and nature might) stabilize it there. If it is not 
stable, it reverts backwards. In the case of the mongrel, you (and 
nature) do not care and keep on hybridizing toward stability.

Also, calling it a hybrid tends to sell better. An unintentional 
"Labrador-Collie-Shetland mix" sells better than a "mongrel" even though 
it clearly meets that definition.

Bill Truesdell ( a pure 
Scot-English-French-Italian-German-Dutch-Norse-African hybrid)
Bath, Maine

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