> Q:  Are there any restrictions on knowingly keeping African bees in an
> apiary situation in the US?
> 
> Section 174.  Keeping of diseased and banned bees prohibited;
> existence of disease to be reported.
> 
> 5.  If any inspection made by the commissioner or his duly authorized
> representative discloses that any apiary, appliances, structures,
> colonies, or comb constitute a nuisance within the meaning of this
> section, the commissioner or his duly authorized representatives may
> ......immediately proceed to abate the nuisance by destroying or treating
> such colonies and equipment,

This is a good example of a poorly worded 
law being more harmful than anything else.
If applied literally, it would destroy most
everyone's hives, including those hives which 
may well represent the future of beekeeping.

This is the case in some countries... which
results in a self fulfilling failure situation. 
Destroying bees in the wild in an effort to
save other weak bees just compounds the
problem.

Government often IS the problem.

Nature the solution. 

Tim

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