>...I do have close on 1500 colonies of A.m.m or, more accurately, near 
> to A.m.m. No idea if anyone has any more.
>Takes four or five seasons for any imported stock to subside into the
>general background of black bees, Any yellow or brown stripes in our
>mainstream stocks are rather rare. In truth most of our stocks will have
>a carnica minority in their genetics.

This is all quite fascinating.  Seems to me that some time back you were
importing stock and with seemingly good reasons.  Has this changed?

Additionally, it seems that while I was napping, somehow a consensus 
has emerged in the UK, favouring A.m.m.  to the point of institutionalising
it and excluding non-A.m.m.  

It almost sounds as if an apian ethnic cleansing is at hand.

What happened?

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