Hello All,

My wife was watching the Discovery Channel on Thursday night.  The show
"Wild Discovery" had a segment on varroa infestation on European honeybees.
They showed how the bees in Thailand have adapted to the varroa when an
individual bee signals she is under attack by dancing.  The other bees wait
for an opportunity to pluck the mites from the affected bee, and kill it with
their mandibles.

Is there something in the temperament or the makeup of Thai bees that they
cannot be used in place of other bees?  If a beekeeper in the United States
were to want to raise Asian bees, would it be permissible?

Thanks,

Joseph A. Clark