>> We have already discussed this on Bee-L.  We don't need a DNA test to
>> tell them apart, if they act like African bees, they aren't welcome here.

Yes, we have discussed it, and if I understand the conclusions, the 
designation 'AHB' may actually be meaningless since it is so hard to 
define in any really scientific way.  Interestingly, this  is the same 
problem that arose under segregation in the US not too many years ago. 
Determining who was African or Africanized proved difficult and 
arbitrary.  Of course that did not and does not stop people -- even 
those who know better -- from trying to make that distinction, and they 
continue to do so with people and with bees.

> let me understand the above?
> If the bees act like African bees (possibly not be) then they need barred?

Dewey Caron reported that colonies he examined at higher elevations as 
he went up a mountain in South America, and which acted just like EHB, 
proved to be actually be as Africanized as obviously AHB-acting bees he 
encountered lower down on that mountain according to the measures used 
at that time. (Personal conversation)

> Perhaps you might share the way you would enforce the law which bans AHB
 > from New York?

Beekeepers being beekeepers, laws are often hard to enforce and 
heavy-handed enforcement can cause hard feelings and division when they 
are.  However, bee laws are very useful to draw a line, encourage 
conformance, and for moral suasion.

The use of the term, "AHB" is useful since everyone 'knows' what it 
means, even if it is not an entirely valid designation.

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