Dr. Gloria DeGrandi-Hoffman remarks also appeared in one of the major U.S. beekeeping 
magazines a year or two back. When I first began keeping bees up here in Anchorage about 10 
years ago I never saw those type bees. A short time before DeGrandi-Hoffman’s article appeared 
in either ‘American Bee Journal’ or ‘Bee Culture’ I saw a few in a hive begun that season from 
California bee packages. Because they were mostly hairless I thought, before reading her article, 
that possibly they were robber bees. But still, besides being mostly hairless, they did look different 
than other workers. I’ve subsequently seen more from time time.

Regards,
Dick Allen

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