That is a very interesting question. I would imagine it depends on how Africanized, the bees are and the locale.  Dewey reported that in the mountains he encountered AHB that could be mistaken for EHB by their behaviour.

That gets us back to local adaptation again. I imagine that AHB is a continuum from mostly EHB to scutella. We get reports that they behave differently in different places and is this the reason?

The above does not answer the question, but suggests finding out if there is a package bee industry anywhere in the South american AHB regions that have climate gradations that might make packages practical like Argentine and Brazil.  

In Canada and the US, the southern areas with long summers and mild winters are suited to making packages, whereas northern regions with long, harsh winters and brief summers need to bring in those packages, although packages are also used as starters between southern regions.

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