> I think that the Hawaiian honey bees are the cleanest honey bees on
> earth, just the cleanest in the United States by virtue of not having
> mites or AHB genes and that these colonies are the most isolated
> colonies on earth....
 
Last I heard, these 'Hawaiian' genes are being imported from Canada among
other countries as semen and possibly as eggs or live queens by commercial
breeders in attempt to make the queen bees exported from Hawaii more
acceptable to their export customers.
 
The Hawaiian bee industry makes its dollar by exporting.  To export, the
rules of fair play dictate that one must also import wherever reasonable.
 
Of course, for that matter, anything that is in New Zealand is likely
already in Canada by virtue of the fact that hundreds of thousands of
packages have been imported from NZ into Canada over the past ten years or
so and widely distributed.  For that matter,  many have been carried into
the continental  US when colonies were sold south by Canadian beekeepers.
 
 
 
Allen