Hi Allen,
      From what all I've read, drones do drift into other hives, but, other
that possibly transferring diseases, pose no problems, i.e. mating - that
takes place in the air.
      Don't think you'll have much of a problem with Africanized bees up
there in Canaca.  First good hard frost and that would kill all of them.
They are a subtropical variety and probably won't get much further north
than central Texas.
 
 
On Mon, 29 May 1995, Allen Dick wrote:
 
> On Sun, 28 May 1995, Michael Stoops wrote:
>
> > One speaks of using drones in the local area to mate with the newly
> > emerged queens.  Here in southern/central Texas, that is no longer a
> > viable method.  We now have feral colonies of the 'Aficanized' bee and
> > knowing that the Africanized drones fly faster than the European drones,
> > we really run the risk of Africanizing our hives.
>
> I wonder if it would be possible to develop a lure that would draw and
> dispose of all the drones in an area, so that a known drone population
> could be put in it's place from time to time.
>
> I also wonder - do the african drones from feral hives move (drift) into
> domestic hives?
>
>
> W. Allen Dick, Beekeeper                        VE6CFK
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