darrells wrote:

> > Murray McGregor Wrote
> >
> > at, or close to, their limiting latitudes in North America.
>
>   Will Amarillo,
> Albuqueque, Flagstaff and Bakersfield never get AHB?
>

Well, as of  April, 1997, downtown Flagstaff had the AHB (swarm, determined by
me, using 25-character Daly morphometrics). since then, several swarms from
Flagstaff suburbs have shown up positive for AHB. There is basically only one
beekeeper there, well known to us and very observant, and he picked up the
swarms to send to us. I am sure he is not the source of the AHB. If you check
yer map, you'll see two canyons (Sycamore and Oak Creek) winding up from the
Phoenix area to within twenty miles of this beautiful city at 7000 foot
elevation, where the winter cold temp. record is 47 degrees (F.) below zero.
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John F. Edwards
"Feral Bee Tracker and AHB Identifier"
Carl Hayden Bee Research Center
http://gears.tucson.ars.ag.gov/home/edwards/index.html