> I'm familiar with the story....a beekeeper saw queen excluders on the 
> entrances of the experimental colonies, saw that they were knocking the 
> pollen off the legs of the foragers, and decided to remove
> them.

Dr. Robert Page told us that Dr. Kerr had breed up queens from the 
Africanised and had given them out to beekeepers so there were already 
queens from the Africanised bees out there in hives.  So they had a head 
start before the excluders were removed.

Trevor Weatherhead
AUSTRALIA 

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