To: "North American Fruit Explorers" <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
Subject: Re: [NAFEX] the Bees - Flight distance
Date: Wed, 23 May 2007 22:29:30 -0500
Lucky, Even the wild populations seem to go up and down. In general we
figure that the mostly black bees are wild, and that the ones with two or
more gold stripes probably have owners. Anyone have any comments on the
coloration of most wild honeybees? They probably always have a lot of the
old German strain in them. A friend had some bees he'd been given, he
complained they were flighty, nervous, prone to stinging, and black. Sound
like German bees? Donna