For sake of accuracy, I should mention that on consulting Mark
Winston's "The Biology of the Honey Bee", I discovered that the German
black bee is apparently bigger, not smaller compared to Italian bees.

On Fri, 1 Sep 2000 23:42:49 -0600, Allen Dick <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> ...such as the old English bee or the German black bee.  These
> latter bees are smaller and were popular around the turn of the
> 20th century.

I don't know what this correction does to my argument, but I do seem to
recall that the feral bees in many areas of North America (and Hawaii as
well) were known to be smaller and meaner than the bees that were
introduced as the century progressed.

Maybe someone else has researched this or recalls from reading?

What about the English black bees?

allen
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