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