African Honeybees don't know how to do the winter ball. For this reason they
can't survive temperatures less than 10º (c) and they environment is limited
between the tropics.(Sao Paulo at South, Texas at North).
        Anyway I can't explain why this capacity seems not to be changed for
breeding with other races.  At least in Africa they could't pass the tropics
in thousand of years.
        Here in Uruguay (35º latitude South) we have not Afr. Honey Bee.
        I don't believe the idea of African Honey Bees crossed the Pyrenees
and evolved into the now existing European races of bees. May be the truth
be the opposite.
The capacity of accumulating foods, typical of the bee, it is almost only in
the world except by their great imitator:  the humans.
        This capacity seems to indicate that the natural environment of the bee is
tempered  with important seasonal variations in the supply.
        The tropical bee, seems an anomaly, since does not need to accumulate in an
environment that has foods all year round .
        Just an oppinion.
 
        Carlos Aparicio
 
 
        
 
 
At 01:31 PM 13/01/1998 -0500, \\Dr. Pedro P. Rodriguez wrote:
>Hi All.
>Hummmm.  I wonder if in effect the Andes cold temperatures have had any
>influence in this trend.  That would be very significant for the theory of
>their trajectory in North America.  Would "colder" climatic conditions in fact
>limit their norwarth progression?  Some years back I read an article about
>"Africanized" bees that had been submitted to laboratory enhanced cold
>environments and survived. (I do not have the reference on hand but I am sure
>that I have filed away with other reference material). According to Brother
>Adams,  African bees crossed the Pyrenees and evolved into the now existing
>European races of bees. What other factors are there in the Southern hemisphere
>to negate a similar occurrence there?   If in fact, degree of coldness alone is
>the limiting factor,  the earlier assumptions of territorial limitations would
>prove true.
>Thoughts, any one?
>Best regards.
>Dr. Rodriguez
>Virginia Beach, VA
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