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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Breeder of queens Koss" data-source="post: 13699" data-attributes="member: 449"><p>I don't want to upset you, but most likely all that's left of the Carnica is its color... Studying the forum, I concluded that the Carnica came to NZ in the early 2000s. It came in the form of a capillary with sperm, for biosafety reasons. More than 20 years have passed. And without the influx of new blood, this genetics would have become closely related, which would have resulted in a loss of vitality in bees. With constant crossing with the local population, there will invariably be absorbing crossing. After 7 generations of crossing, little remains of the original line. There is a misconception that a "breed" a priori should show stable certain characteristics. You have a closed population of bees in the country, and the colonies behave differently and are very different from each other. Carnica would not be Carnica if the institutes of Kirchein and Celle had not worked on it, there were no isolated mating stations, there was no special beebreed program that calculates which combinations to mate and a very large number of breeders of this bee who improve it. After all, initially, Carnica was a rather angry and swarming bee. And only human labor made it what it is now.</p></blockquote><p></p>

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