Hi,

Deknow, I agree with a lot of what you are saying and in my opinion,  
the beekeeping industry is failing miserably for not using, and  
breeding with AHB stock to improve it for the better of the industry.  
Instead they indiscriminately destroy and eradicate any thing that  
even looks AHB and in states considered AHB they even destroy colonies  
that are gentle in the fear that they are "AHB". The publics  
indiscriminate destruction of colonies is not helping for the long  
haul. As another said the informed experts have all the answers and  
have the situation under control and low and behold now we are in this  
sad state of misery with the beekeeping industry. Bees are in such a  
shortage that getting package bees and queens are getting harder to  
do, I get call here in Alaska from people in the lower 48 states  
thinking I can send them package bees from up here, crazy uh? AHB can  
be breed to the gentle side just like in Puerto Rico described in this  
link below;
http://esa.confex.com/esa/2005/techprogram/paper_22428.htm
Most beekeepers are afraid of AHB, and in turn they are scarring the  
public. Like I have said before, Beekeepers can be their own worst  
enemy as in this case.

But hey, I am just a poor, dumb, uninformed beekeeper in Alaska, What  
do I know.

God Bless,

Keith Malone

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