I am sorry if this topic is getting tedious. I was hoping to get a straight 
answer on this.

>How do YOU tell them apart from other bees? What kind of bees do you have 
>and how do they differ from the other bees in your area?

>Well, even the gov doing testing lump them all together and cannot tell 
>them apart by sight

With this statement you seem to be saying that "the government" considers 
your bees and the other Africanized bees to be the same. They cannot be 
separated by sight. And since your bees are all small, they cannot be 
separated from Africanized bees by size. So, how do you know they are NOT 
African bees?

>If one reads carefully through the papers that were cited, one would have 
>to conclude that that it would be nearly impossible to keep bees in 
>Southern AZ without having them become Africanized.

>Yes maybe one would, then you must consider who is writing the papers

You lost me here. Are we supposed to reject the work of Stanley Schneider, 
Gloria DeGrandi-Hoffman, Deborah Roan Smith, Anita Collins, W. S. Sheppard, 
etc. -- all respected experts in the field of honey bee genetics?

* No one doubts your experience. You have been around AHB for something like 
15 years. Why do you call them "so-called African bees"?

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