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Re: Hive robbing
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Dr MH Villet <[log in to unmask]>
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Discussion of Bee Biology <[log in to unmask]>
Date:
Tue, 15 Feb 1994 20:53:54 +0200
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Kit Lee writes:
>
> Does anyone out there know whether or not Africanized bees also engage in
> hive robbing? And does interbreeding take place between Africanized and
> non-Africanized bees?
>
 
African honey bees (scutellata and capensis) definitely rob one another's
hives, and the same is probably true of AHB in the New World.
 
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 Martin H. Villet
 
 Department of Zoology and Entomology   Telephone: 27 [0]461 318-527
 Rhodes University
 Grahamstown 6140 RSA                  Internet: [log in to unmask]

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