A couple months ago I asked about how invasion of a non-capensis colony by
capensis bees was harmful to the colony.  Today I got around to reading my
July 2002 ABJ and found part of the answer that I don't recall reading in
the resulting thread.

According to Dr. Wyatt A. Mangum, scutellata colonies with capensis
pseudo-queens in them will often kill their own queen.  The capensis
pseudo-queens lay far fewer eggs than a real queen does, and so the colony
eventually dies out for lack of bees.

Frank.
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