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To: Eleutheria5

I have found Italian Queens bred in Texas to be my most predictable in behavior hives. I twice bought “Caucasian, and Carniolan” queens for hive re-queening. They are marketed as docile. I found nothing could be further from reality. The hives became dangerous to the neighborhood. One lawn mower two hundred feet away would but them on alert.


55 posted on 02/10/2026 8:51:37 AM PST by blackdog (The philosophy of the schoolroom in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next.)
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To: blackdog

The Caucasian Mountain strain is the docile one, the Caucasian flatlanders are the opposite. At least that’s what the bee encyclopedia from 1946, that I once read, said.


58 posted on 02/10/2026 9:41:28 AM PST by Eleutheria5 ("America can be summed up in one word: Asmpfutehehepfpfutehe")
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