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> http://www.economist.co.uk/science/displayStory.cfmstory_id=1234672
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Is this article accurate?If so it would explain a few things.If I
understand it correctly(never a sure thing with me)it is saying the cape
bee problem can be traced back to one single laying worker that drifted in
to a scut hive a few years ago.I guess DNA testing would have proven
that.So,if all the bees in the hive,scuts and capes,believe they are
queenright,then apparently no effort is made to raise a queen?
 The article said this is a recent occurence from a mutation.That could
explain why there has been no problems with the bees coming up from
Brazil.Apparently this is an abnormality(of the worst kind).
----Mike