>If Tom Seeley is to be believed, ferals, and hived bees
too for that matter once they have gone back to nature,
select fairly small cavities compared to normal managed
hives.
====

OK, you said it,, and Seeley agrees,,,

The statement that all feral bees 
are smarmy is false because it largely depends 
on them selecting "fairly small cavities". 

The assumption that ferals only have 
"fairly small cavities" to select from is
flat out wrong. 

My observations on void sizes in feral
colonies is that the largest voids often 
exist in these housing complexes which 
contain high end $300.000 homes with 
lots of gingerbread and subsequent
voids.  I tend to get the largest swarms 
from housing complexes.  I suppose homeowners,
looking down too worried about their
lawn being better manicured than their 
neighbors, often fail to look up, allowing
many of these colonies to go undetected
for years.

-Joe Waggle

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