Jon wrote;
Who exactly is breeding bees bred for looks and wing venation? I don't know anyone who does this. The best use of morphometry is to detect a hybridised colony and REJECT it as a candidate for breeding.
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Eric wrote:
Exactly my point – the hybrid is rejected out of hand, because it LOOKS wrong. No mention of its qualities.
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Jon wrote:
I know you see yourself as a visionary, but it seems to me you are a little late to the party here with regard to morphometry and other indicators.
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Jon there is no way back for you from Post number 29.
How far back do you wish to go? I was corresponding with Beowulf Cooper about AMM and the importation of exotic honey bee in the 1970s? I actually participated in the original Stoakley Morphology Seminar, in Peebles at which Ian Craig was also present, when Dr Eric Milner was in his hey day! I still have the wing samples used then.
I told Dr Milner at that event that it had been a fun day but that in my opinion breeding AMM in Scotland was “fetish”. The environment and forage has changed quite dramatically since the 1920s– (I assume you know of Dr Milner’s contribution to the science of Morphologie?)
Tell me what you associate Ernst Haekel with and we can discuss the subject on equal terms. As I said there is no substitute for experience and education.
Eric
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