> Presumably, most of the bees of southern Utah are pretty much Africanized.

> I find it amusing that where one state (Arizona) assumes all feral bees are Africanized, a neighboring state is setting up a preserve for them.

Jeez...

1. The USDA map you linked to in no way implies that "most of the bees of southern Utah are pretty much Africanized." The Southeastern Utah  county in purple (San Juan) had two colonies TEST Africanized. I captured them and submitted the samples. We have had NO "full scale assaults without provocation" or any "following for hundreds of yards" in SE Utah. The Utah attacks that have made the news happened in SW Utah, 200 miles away. I think it's premature to imply we don't have feral stock in our area worth working with.

2. The proposed ordinance that triggered this thread is about prohibiting traffic in migratory bees. The merits of the ordinance regarding local bee health can certainly be debated, by why muddy the discussion by equating it with your "amusing" straw man "Africanized preserve."  

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