Dick wrote

> Something about this troubles me. My reading tells me that Apis Ceranae
> predate on EHBs and AHBs and eventually take over the hive by out 
> producing
> Ceranae eggs. The eventual output of the situation is "no more Mellifera."
> There is a transition stage. I can't believe that the mentioned 
> researchers
> do not know this, so something else must be going on. I guess they never
> actually said that the mix was viable. Straighten me out someone.

Are you sure you are not mixing up the asian bee (Apis cerana) with the Cape 
bee (Apis mellifera capensis)?  I am not aware that cerana predates on 
mellifera.

Trevor Weatherhead
AUSTRALIA

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