Three decades ago Ben Oldroyd wrote a commentary in Trends in Ecology of Evolution with a title that started "Coevolution while you wait...". It addressed the expected eventual outcome of the encounter between A. mellifera and V. jacobsoni (its name then...). Yesterday I came across a summary written by Andy Card on their efforts to use and introduce selected bees in their operation running tens of thousands of migratory colonies. He ends with the statement that at some point they would like to say: "Look Ma, no wheels", if beekeeping is a bicycle and treatments are training wheels.
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