> I seriously doubt whether natural selection has had much effect on US
> honey bees, since human selected bees are far more numerous in most
> locales, and any queen that mates in the air is going to get hit by
> whatever local drones happen to be hanging out close by. But this is
> common knowledge, has been for 200 years.

Would the invasion of the AHB from the south not be an exception where
natural selection in some areas is definitely favouring the new genes,
and quite rapidly?

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