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Dee Lusby <[log in to unmask]>
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Informed Discussion of Beekeeping Issues and Bee Biology <[log in to unmask]>
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Mon, 30 Jan 2006 13:49:19 -0800
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Chuck Norton writes:
This broad survey established a databank or database 
for honeybee genera and morphological data frozen in time
and mapped distribution of all subspecies of Apis
melliferia across America. It is from this forethought that
we have our data for morphological, FABIS, and mtDNA
comparison.

Reply:
Yet there were unresolved disputes if memory serves me
correctly back in the late 1980s between the different
personnel doing testing and setting up standards........

One that comes to mind, at least to me was with Roger Morse
and Prof H. V. Daly, and was even published in a reshearchy
review with Dr Morses comments back around 1987 in Bee
Culture, that I don't think was ever resolved. In it Dr
Morse says:"Professor H.V. Daly of the University of Calif
told me the following:'We have found a few colonies of
feral honey bees in Calif that have the morphometric
characteristics of Africanized bees. But further testing of
alozymes, cuticular hydrocarbons and worker brood comb cell
diameter indicates these colonies are European. This is a
gind of genetic variation we didn't know about.' I asked
professor Daly if this could be an explanation for the
finding of AFricanized bees in California earlier and he
replied it was not. The question of identifying races of
bees ramains a difficult one."

Which to me is still.........going on....and how many of
these discrepencies are still being found in California, as
I really don't think caucasian similar bees, like we have
in S. Arizona and San Diego can be properly ID'd yet,
especially with those of us on SC.

Can anyone verify the corrections were made and where and
when published????? I would certainly like to know.

Respectfully submitted,

Dee A. Lusby
Small Cell Commercial Beekeeper
Moyza, Arizona
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/organicbeekeepers/





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