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IMHO, if the migratory beekeepers continue "business as usual" by
bringing all-of-them north every year, eventually these
unselected, wild-type AHBs will get selected for cold weather. How
about imagining bees that can overwinter in Minnesota, and are "a
little more feisty"?
This is prob not a popular view, but experiences on the front in
Tucson lead us (me and several others) to see the AHB at about the
same stage as coyotes, that is - unselected and possessing the
wide genetics to make selection under pressure quite rapid.
They can also be selected for gentleness, if you have the time.
I guess I could point out the spread of coyotes into NEUS cities,
but that might be a stretch....
- John Edwards, Vancouver, WA
On Tue Aug 21 15:29:12 PDT 2007, Lloyd Spear <[log in to unmask]>
wrote:
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> In a conversation last week I was told by a migratory beekeeper
> who winters
> in FL that "we all are bringing them north because we don't
> necessarily know
> they are Africanized when we put them on the truck.' 'After a
> few weeks in
> the NYS yards, you find out in a hurry which ones are
> Africanized, and keep
> away from them when in the yards.....
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