Hi P-O

You mention Mozambique as to your experience with African
honeybees; it is a very large country physically. My only direct
experience with such bees is on the South African/Mozambique
border. There, is is said, anecdotally, that you may find hybrids
between scutellata and AM lutterea. That is, a hybrid between two bee
races. But there is no scientific proof of such hybrid.

I can certainly confirm that my pure scutellata field bees do not use the
landing boards provided. But they also do not ignore them, being the
bees that they are. The police bees find the landing board a good
place to fight off drifting AM capensis workers, and also ants, beetles,
and other scutellata vermin.

Barry Sergeant
Kyalami
South Africa