Robert, See my later post, but I'll sum it up here:LIABILITY, and good old American LITIGATION. When the kid down the road gets stung by a bee (or wasp) you will have to PROVE your bees are not ahb. In an area where all of the feral bees are ahb and you have a number of hives IMHO it will be almost impossible to keep some of them from being ahb even with constant requeening. If someone will sue because it was too hot at the football game (Dallas Cowboys, Texas Stadium, 98') and suffered a heat stroke, they will sue over this at the drop of a hat. Bob Young Lindale,TX ---------- > From: crpost <[log in to unmask]> > To: [log in to unmask] > Subject: Re: africanized bees > Date: Saturday, September 09, 2000 9:06 AM > > Bob Young wrote: > > IMHO this will drive more people from beekeeping than varroa. > > Why? > > Robert Post