Is there a native honey bee

[gavin]

I think you have said it better than I was trying to explain, I hope you were not being mischievous trying to get me in trouble .

Not at all . I feared that the thread was going to go quite far off topic and I came up with a title for a new thread with too little thought, far too early in the morning.

These issues of purity and identity aren't easy. Matters of judgement. In nature, populations do exchange genes from time to time anyway. They retain their identity either through strong selection pushing things back to where they were before, or they just get diluted out into the bigger picture. Amm (Irish or Scottish) with a bit of a contribution from elsewhere via man's actions is probably just a broader beast than what it would be naturally.

G

[Greengage]

As Bill O’Herlihy the famous sports commentator always said at the end of his programmes "We'll leave it there so"

[The Drone Ranger]

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Breeding-Bet.../dp/1904623182
cheap copy of the definitive guide to AMM
Some undeniable facts in there (for example -- there was an Ice Age)
It seems I bought one in 2011 I wish I hadn't left it out in the rain
got a couple of Brother Adams as well

[Greengage]

Great book can you buy it by the page or on HP, Is there a PDF version available, I also take it your not a fan of AMM.

[Mellifera Crofter]

...I wish I hadn't left it out in the rain ...

I have one! You should soon see a third buying option for £998.
Kitta

[The Drone Ranger]

I have one! You should soon see a third buying option for £998.
Kitta

Do you think its money laundering or something ?


GG
I used to hear Breeding Better Bees cited on a daily basis
reading it I didn't find their arguments and conclusions compelling
Getting some things right for the wrong reasons is usually just called guessing

Did you ever see the Morcambe and Wise sketch where Andre' Previn tells Eric hes playing all the wrong notes
Eric says "I'm playing all the right notes", "just not necessarily in the right order"