> A truly feral, unmanaged colony must be a very rare thing these days,
certainly in most of the UK.

I'm just leaving the National Honey show, and asked Roger that question.
His impression is that the removal of "diseased" trees has eliminated the
number of available cavities for free-living bees, but that they are still
out there.
He tells me that all the cutouts that he does are of dark bees, which
suggests that a free-living population continues to exist.

Randy Oliver
Grass Valley, CA
530 277 4450
ScientificBeekeeping.com

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