Dick wrote
> If memory serves me correctly, I've read (but can't remember where) that
> cerana and mellifera
> bees have been shown to mate, although no offspring was produced.
Yes there is a paper out from Japan, which I cannot put my hands on at the
moment, which showed that Apis mellifera carnica queens mated with Apis
cerana drones and there was no viable brood produced.
Trevor Weatherhead
AUSTRALIA
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