> I wonder why this was a 'surprising finding'

They found the bees extremely difficult to work with and assumed that they *must* be Africanized. They wrote:

> In colonies that were very aggressive, V. destructor levels were not estimated because sampling was not possible as we got aggressively forced out of the area by the bees.

These are experiences bee researchers, so I believe them when they say getting samples was impossible. Further

> On the island of St. Croix, which is close to Dominica, feral honey bees were either of European or African maternal descent

PLB

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