Hello Randy & All,
Randy said:
>  There were a few exceptions, though.

  The exceptions are the reason many of us keep searching. I lost my best
exception queen this fall. I knew she was Russian/Russian because she was
one of the 26 numbered inseminated queens I helped inseminate  myself at
Purvis Brothers apiaries in Georgia and hand carried back to Missouri.

What amazed me about her was the huge amount of brood she produced, record
honey production in a drought year and good brood viability. I waited a year
too long to use her to create a hybrid bee. Dann Purvis keeps records of
every queen he inseminates so perhaps I can raise her from the dead if Dann
has still kept some of the first Russian/Russian Blue line stock released
through Glenn Apiaries around.

However maybe I should be looking to the future instead of looking back as
looking back is kind of like trying to get back together with an X wife.
Seldom works!

bob


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