Bill Truesdell wrote

> Actually, if you look in Africa, Brazil and even Mexico and Texas, AHB 
> are being managed just like EHB. AHB are not uniform in their 
> aggressively habits any more than EHB. You get the good and the bad.

actually, I happen to live in Africa, keeping Apis mellifera adansonii.
Yes, we get the good and the bad, weeding out the latter. Beekeeping
here is in it's infancy.

The bees are what they are and whether we consider them domesticated or
not does not change anything. To call them domesticated or not is
nothing but a label awarded them by us.

Chrissy Shaw wrote

> If we are not special that means we have relationships that fit into 
> biological standards regarding co-dependant, symbiotic or parasitic
> relationships with bees, and many other species.

I think I like this version.
-- 
  Mario Pittori
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