>
> > All you need to do is hang around a bar with a bunch of ethnic guys at a
> show and get them to talk and the stories are incredible. Such smuggling
> happens in both directions routinely.
I have reason to believe that this also takes place with queens.
The other thing is that when a few individuals of a species are introduced
to a new area, if they can rapidly expand their population, there is little
loss of the original genetic diversity (I've read a few studies on this).
A single introduced queen may carry the genes of 20 or more drones, which
can be propagated in the expanding population if a large number of daughter
queens are reared from the founder queen.
--
Randy Oliver
Grass Valley, CA
www.ScientificBeekeeping.com
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