>Marc--
>
>    Dr. Dewey Caron, the Delaware State Entomologist and instructor at the
>University of Delaware, has done some work with managing Africanized bees in
>Costa Rica.  Last time I looked, he had an e-mail address that could be found
>by geographical Gopher search of USA/Delaware/U of Delaware.
>
>    His comment, at a lecture for the state beekeepers' organization, was also
>that most of the old-time beekeepers gave up, but that newcomers, trained in
>handling the Africanized bees from the start, had few problems.  He also noted
>that after a few years of management they began seeing moderated
>aggressiveness (that's encouraging for Mexico and the southern US).
 
This is essentially the same tale told by Marla Spivak, who worked on the
AHB while at the University of Kansas under Chip Taylor. Last I knew, she
was in Arizona, and she has a LOT of experience working with Latin American
beekeepers. Cheers,
 
Doug Yanega      Illinois Natural History Survey, 607 E. Peabody Dr.
Champaign, IL 61820 USA     phone (217) 244-6817, fax (217) 333-4949
  "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness
        is the true method" - Herman Melville, Moby Dick, Chap. 82