Hi Stan,

 

If I knew a pathogen that did it it would be because it allready happened.  

 

I didn't think of a mellifera-dorsata jump but now you are mentioning it I can think of an even more increased risk. When that occurs and dorsata populations are reduced by a mellifera pathogen it would not be such a big deal for a mellifera-only-temperate-westerner like me but I still would not want to be responsible for a tropical experiment with AFB or an unknown critter challenging cerana/florea/dorsata. The fact and impact of pathogens changing hosts/location as we have seen it in the last 100 years in mellifera would make me wary.  Researchers remarking "that the bees seem free of it" is not enough for me. 

 

I can imagine temperate mellifera struggleling in the lowland Phillipines...if you would introduce the proper tropical mellifera and it takes hold as it did in the Americas you will have plenty wax. ;-)

 

atb

Lennard 

 


 
 		 	   		  
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