From: "deelusbybeekeeper" <deelusbybeekeeper@excelonline.com>
Date: Tue, 3 Apr 2001 19:46:55 -0700
To: <BiologicalBeekeeping@yahoogroups.com>
Subject: Re: The Proof in the Pudding

Hi to all on Biological Beekeeping

Joel wrote:

> What type of bees are these? Are they a specific,e.g. carniolan,
> buckfast,etc, or a hybrid of their own? I would be greatly interested in
> knowing more about their background. If this is in the archives, please
> share how I can find it.

Reply:

For more on our bees that we have been breeding and selecting since the
early to mid-1980s to develop for a natural sustainable system of true
organic biological beekeeping please see:

http://www.beesource.com/pov/lusby/abjnov1989.htm titled *Managing Colony Genetics by grafting and selecting for queens with shorter development times*

http://www.beesource.com/pov/lusby/apiacta1995.htm titled *Field Breeding
Basics for Honeybees using Colony Thermodynamics within the Transition
Zones*

http://www.beesource.com/pov/lusby/bsmay1991.htm titled *Thelytoky in a
Strain of U.S. Honeybees (Apis mellifera L.)

In the USDA experiments,we allowed our bees to be used and then they were returned to us. They are labeled merely as *LUS-bees*. They are a Caucasian type strain with Italian influence that key out with DNA in their own
grouping (the closest bees like them being found in the hills of San Diego
Calif). When grafting and breeding our bees it is always done with stress in
out-of-season breeding and/or hand selection to the small black caucasian
side, knowing the yellowside of caucasian will keep appearing, though often
labeled as Italian type.

WE have always bred for wall to wall workerbrood outbred patterns with
modified open mating.

Chow

Dee