I suspect the Australian ferals are touchy
because they are closer to the 50/50 mix of races than the managed
colonies. If they had even more /Amm /then I would expect them to be gentler.
Has anyone handled the bees of Tasmania? According to the study in question:
The bees from the highlands in the centre of
Tasmania have a high proportion of Western
European alleles (commercial, 86.3–92.0 %;
feral, 81.1–90.0 %). In contrast,
bees collected from elsewhere in Tasmania
have a much lower frequency of alleles of
Western European origin.
PLB
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