I do wonder why if "local bees were so great" why Father Adam took years to find the almost perfect bee which is in great demand today?!
We imported a huge number of bees following the "Isle if Wight" disease and it is my understanding that the ones that survived it were mostly 'foreign" ??!!
When you think of fruit trees and plants, they are tweaked to produce the best fruit and be tolerant of disease so a mixture should be better in my opinion.
I've never had black bees but different people that I know have, have said that they are more feisty than the gentle Italian??!!
We imported a huge number of bees following the "Isle if Wight" disease and it is my understanding that the ones that survived it were mostly 'foreign" ??!!
When you think of fruit trees and plants, they are tweaked to produce the best fruit and be tolerant of disease so a mixture should be better in my opinion.
I've never had black bees but different people that I know have, have said that they are more feisty than the gentle Italian??!!