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  1. 31-10-2010, 02:02 PM #1
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    Default Example of hybridization

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    This colony is headed by a black queen mated mid July 2010 but at least 50% of her offspring show yellow banding, probably from Buckfast crosses.

    The queen was one I took in an Apidea to an apiary with Galtee drones but she obviously strayed into bad company. There are two apiaries close by with Buckfast bees.

    I haven't done morphometry on this one so it might be interesting to take a sample as I am sure the % AMM is low.
    A queen like this can still produce perfectly good AMM type drones as her own drones will not be influenced by the yellow drones she crossed with.
    Last edited by Jon; 31-10-2010 at 05:56 PM. Reason: typo
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