From: "huestis" <buzzybee@capital.net>
Date: Sat, 3 Nov 2001 15:51:26 -0800
To: <BiologicalBeekeeping@yahoogroups.com>
Subject: Re: fall honey for wintering bees

Hi Robert,

> There's evidence of strains of
> A.m.m. which winter better on heather honey than on sugar. Ruttner (The Dark
> European Honey Bee, pp 21-4) argues that the feeding of sugar began with the
> importation if Italian bees.

Maybe the problem is the lack of well adapted local type stock at least in
the US. With the buying of queens that goes on in the US for requeening how
can one arrive with a well adapted stock?

Clay