Richard>Yes, I clearly understand that a bee with African mitochondria says there is an unbroken maternal line back to Africanized stock. But, by itself that knowledge is meaningless.
Ok- can you offer what kind of DNA analysis would confirm and that a colony is Africanized if, for some reason, one needed to know?
Bill Hesbach
Cheshire Ct.
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