Your gallery of 2D plots

[Jon]

I posted links to a couple of papers in the morphometry area which might explain the anomalies, either a mutation or developmental issues.

[Rosie]

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How about this one? It's one of mine this time. There are a few in the sample with a kink in vein 1 to 4 but only one with this stubby vein.

Rosie

[gavin]

The spirit of Jessie Smith says that she sees a route-map of parts of N Wales with some of the bridges washed away during the April floods.

[Jon]

I grafted a few from this one

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[Rosie]

That's a pretty good plot but in my opinion the morphplot percentages don't do it justice. The wings that are outside the box are only marginally outside but they drag down the percentage just as much as they would have done had they been in the middle of the carniolan range. I don't understand why discoidal shift can't be plus one in any case as they were in some of the original museum samples.

I would be very happy to graft from that one provided, of course, that its other traits were right.

Steve

[Jon]

I don't worry about the percentages.
Having a reasonably tight cluster is good in my opinion.
There are no yellow bees at all in this colony.
Lost the queen though when I was away for 3 weeks but have quite a few of her daughters heading nucs.

This year I have about 8 colonies I am equally happy to graft from.

Most of the grafts for our queen rearing group came from this one which is unrelated to the one above.
No yellow workers in this one either and a very docile colony.

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[gavin]

Its an earthworm's eye view of a mole passing overhead. Do earthworms have eyes?

[Jon]

I'll have a glass of whatever you're drinking!

[gavin]

Just the usual antioxidant-rich plonk. That other scatterplot has me foxed. There's a hint of a thing with big floppy wings. A dove, a moth, or one of those bizarre cyclist-dove hybrids in the Olympics opening ceremony.

[Jon]

Ok all you morphometry nerds.
Here is the first two of my 2012 queens.
Small sample size and will get better samples later but looks promising enough.
86 is a graft from a Galtee daughter queen mated late June, 93 is a daughter of one of my own clipped queens which swarmed in July when I was away, mated in August

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Nearly 30 more still to check, mostly in nucs made up in July and August with queens from Apideas.