Dee Lusby wrote:

> Yes, data is piling up on differences that cannot be
> overlooked

But it may also be that bees from different areas of the world have
hitchhiked to the US on ships or crates of machinery and the presence of
any different dna in feral bees in any area cannot be accredited to what
may have happened in the past.

For example. We had, fortunately in the dead of winter, an AHB colony
delivered with some generating equipment to a power station in Maine.
They were alive after a trip from Brazil.

No reason they could not come from Spain or any other country and have
done so long ago or last month.

Bill Truesdell
Bath, Maine