Honeybee races - nature or nurture?

[The Drone Ranger]

This pdf of a 1968 paper by prof. Ruttner presents some thoughts on the subject:

Thanks for that prakel very interesting read

http://news.stv.tv/scotland/123803-a...ire-beekeeper/

This is what can happen

[prakel]

Maybe asbo's should have been issued to everyone who's allowing unsuitable drones to fly freely across the countryside

[The Drone Ranger]

I don't know the inside story but I was told he had bees in his garden for years no problem until he developed an interest in bee breeding
who knows he might be on the SBAi forum and give us the other side of the tale