Hi Randy,

< I come across references to various other island breeding  
experiments, but haven't written them down, sorry.
<

http://esa.confex.com/esa/2005/techprogram/paper_22428.htm

Here is an interesting one in which the supposed AHB strain of bee (I  
think it just well may have been only the feral strain of bee that  
already was originally there to begin with, being feral that bounced  
back from near crash) bred themselves gentle. Not you Randy, but I  
think there is some sweet possibilities for honeybee genetics but  
there are some hardheaded folks out there who seem to refuse to even  
entertain the idea that it can happen, but it can happen even with  
the loathed and feared AHB. For that matter the loathed and feared  
German Brown Bee (Apis mellifera mellifera), thought by some to be as  
fierce as the AHB of today being "mean and nasty".

Thanks Randy for replying.

The "Mean and Nasty",
Keith Malone

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