Abstract
This lecture, given at the Sixth Bee Research Association Conference at St. Andrews in June 1972, gives a brief summary of some of the research done by the author and his colleagues on the important question of acclimatization. One of the two areas used for the experiments is the open forest land on the south-west coast of France, where heather gives the main (late) honey flow. The other area is the Paris basin, where the seasonal cycle is a more usual one, with spring and summer flows.It is very easy nowadays to transport queens (and package bees) from one part of the world to another, and a strain of bees known to the beekeeper only from glowing descriptions may seem to offer him a miraculous solution to problems of low yields, poor wintering, and so on. The experiments described here show that the introduction of queens from a quite different type of region may be a traumatic experience for the colonies, and that the outcome is not necessarily beneficial.
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