> The morphometry is only used as a confirmation. morphometry on it's own 
> will give you a set of measuring tools and methods of analysis. You apply 
> this measurement to colonies that you have selected from the intensive 
> data that has been kept on each colony, in order that you can say I have a 
> colony with XYZ characteristics that also lies within the racial type of 
> the bee we wish to propagate.

If I'm reading that right, it looks to me as if you are saying that 
morphometrics is only good for comparison and selection within a known 
population of honey bees.  If so, by extension, I would see that as 
suggesting that the technique is not well suited to identifying the race of 
unknown samples of honey bees.

Can you expand a bit on what you are saying and clarify that point?

Thanks.

allen 

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