Hello Jim & All,

Does the list doubt millions have been spent over the last thirty years
researching the Africanized honey bee?

Thirty years of trap lines, trips to South America,
countless hours running DNA and wing venation on  swarms caught in  traps in
Brazil or southern Mexico .

 I know of one researcher alone which recieved 250,000 U.S. to study AHB.

He concluded that the AHB was one nasty bee and not the kind of honeybee we
would want in our hives (and he kept only AHb in nucs!).

Hell I could have concluded the above before he started his five years of
observations.

Adrian & I have seen huge sums of precious research money spent on (in our
opinion) projects of little value to beekeeping.

As a beekeeper I would like to see every beekeeping research project funded
but reality says we need to research the most pressing first  and  the
others at lower levels.

AHB research dominated research for many years and many beekeepers
complained.

What have we really learned about the africanized bee. At what point is a
bee  africanized? Could sssome of the the money spent on AHB research have
better been used in other ways?

Could not some of the money spent on researching the waggle dance have been
used to research other pressing beekeeping research?

Why did not we find the early work (1937) on odor which proved  the waggle
dance theory *alone* was flawed before spending research dollars on flawed
research?


Bob

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