In message <[log in to unmask]>, James Kilty <[log in to unmask]> writes quoting albert knight's email >Recently the work by Dr. Bo Vest >Pedersen at Copenhagen University has shown that there are bees here in >Britain and Ireland with identical morphometry (correction by James - dna >studies in addition to morphometry) to the Apis mellifera >mellifera bees of Tasmania. Whoops - in my hasty zeal, I made an inappropriate correction - albert knight's reference was correct and to earlier work on Tasmanian and British Isles bees - later Bo Vest Pederson and Francis Ratnieks did dna studies on British and Scandinavian bees showing *they* were virtually identical. I have no reference to dna work on Tasmanian bees. I confused the 2 studies. Sorry. -- James Kilty