> >In my view, most feral bees are genetically similar to kept bees, which
> is logical since they live in proximity to kept bees and came from them at
> one time.


From Wikipedia: "Zoologists generally exclude from the feral category
animals that were genuinely wild before they escaped from captivity."

There is plenty of evidence that there are unbroken maternal lines of
wild-living honey bees existing in Americas.  They did not come from the
"domesticated" C mitotypes propagated by breeders, and were arguably
imported as "wild types."

-- 
Randy Oliver
Grass Valley, CA
www.ScientificBeekeeping.com

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