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Al Lipscomb <[log in to unmask]>
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Informed Discussion of Beekeeping Issues and Bee Biology <[log in to unmask]>
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Tue, 18 Jun 2002 20:17:30 -0400
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> I hope no one takes this seriously. The entire state of Arizona is
> Africanized, and I sincerely hope no one is deliberately moving bees
> out of there to northern states. You should remember that the results
> they are having could be entirely environmental in nature (hot, dry
> climate), which means the effects could not be exported to most other
> regions.
>

Even more to the point if these bees are expressing charateristics of
cape bees then we realy need to be careful about moving them around.
Even if it is not the result of "capensis genes", it is the trait that
matters here. The last thing wee need to see is our hives breaking out
with pseudo queens.

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