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African bees
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Trevor Weatherhead <[log in to unmask]>
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Tue, 2 Jun 2015 17:26:15 +1000
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>There is no evidence that A. m. scutellata was ever deliberately introduced into Australia, Canada or the USA. However, there is good evidence of early importations of honeybees from North Africa into both the US and Australia.

-- A SNP test to identify Africanized honeybees via proportion of ‘African’ ancestry (2015)

I can confirm that in the 1890's there were Punic bees, maybe intermissa, being sold commercially here in Australia and an account of a beekeeper keeping Punic bees in 1904.  I suspect that the Punic bees may have been imported from stock imported into the USA and not directly from Africa but as I said that is a suspicion.

Re Punic bees being imported into the USA see http://trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/article/68713921 

Trevor Weatherhead
Australia

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