<p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>An important and relevant book aimed at </span><strong style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>all&nbsp;beekeepers </strong><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>interested in </span><strong style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>bee breeding </strong><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>with a view to 'improving what we have got' rather than that&nbsp;of&nbsp;constant importation of bees. The author explains how the long-term prospects for&nbsp;beekeeping in the UK will be brighter if this route is taken.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Beekeepers are&nbsp;often tempted by the use&nbsp;of&nbsp;imported stock because&nbsp;of&nbsp;the prolific nature&nbsp;of&nbsp;the queens and the docility&nbsp;of&nbsp;the colonies produced. Other attributes particularly their hardiness and ability to perform in our conditions are untested and their docility is&nbsp;often quickly lost in succeeding generations. Further imports are then thought to be necessary in order to raise the standards again. The system&nbsp;of&nbsp;regularly bringing in new queens allows for no local adaptation and no thought is given as to how to maintain any improved quality other than by repeating the process and importing further new stock.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Instead&nbsp;of&nbsp;the endless battle against the decline in quality&nbsp;of&nbsp;our&nbsp;bees and the experience&nbsp;of&nbsp;high colony losses we could witness a steady&nbsp;improvement&nbsp;in the quality&nbsp;of&nbsp;our stock if don't import bees but breed our own native strains instead. A more uniform but genetically diverse&nbsp;bee&nbsp;could be produced using locally-reared queens with qualities&nbsp;of&nbsp;hardiness ease&nbsp;of&nbsp;management productivity and good-temper.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>This book deliberately&nbsp;offers a 'low-tech' approach relevant to and achievable by all beekeepers at any level.</span></p>
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