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> .......Is it possible that one of the reasons that Africanised honey
> bees
> tend to replace European honeybees is that we give no drone comb to
> our bees, resulting in an artificial scarcity of European drones?

Steve Taber mentioned back in the 1970s that large colonies in Hawaii had
maybe thirty percent drones, and had no problem making tons of honey - he
was always an advocate of letting the bees build in patches of free-style
come for drones.
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John F. Edwards
Biological Lab. Technician
"Feral Bee Tracker and AHB Identifier"
Tucson, Arizona 85719

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