From: Pav <bobhog@pin.co.nz>
Date: Wed, 4 Jul 2001 8:14:50 +1200
To: <BiologicalBeekeeping@yahoogroups.com>
Subject: Re: egyptian stock

At 26/06/01 20:04:00, Trevor wrote:
> We have imported our Italian stock from mainly the
>USA... We also imported Cyprian bees back then and back in the 1890's
>we even had Apis intermissa called the Punic bees. Add to this caucasians,
>carniolans and the mellifera mellifera first up, we have ferals that have
>the potential to be a real pot purri.

Trevor can you guesstimate when these respective imports to Oz were happening? Given that most NZ bloodlines came from Oz before our govenment stopped bee-imports, it may open the possibility that the NZ bee gene pool isn't so restricted as thought...

-Pav, totally not keeping-up with his inbox at present...