> Funny you talking doing back in 1956 and yet USDA did same bringing bees here for looking at and doings!!!!

You know what, it was NOT the same. Various people imported bees into the USA, but none of the importations had the impact as what happened in Brazil. Warwick Kerr is a brilliant man, but nothing is clear about what actually took place. So far as I know, everything went completely differently from what was planned. The Africanization of the bees of America was a throughly unexpected event, and an example of epic proportion of a takeover by an invasive species. No two ways about it.

See:
Scott Schneider S, DeGrandi-Hoffman G, Smith DR., The African honey bee: factors contributing to a successful biological invasion. Annu Rev Entomol. 49:351-76. 2004

Robin F. A. Moritz, Stephan Härtel, Peter Neumann, Global invasions of the western honeybee (Apis mellifera) and the consequences for biodiversity, Ecoscience 12(3):289-301. 2005 

SUAREZ, A. V. and TSUTSUI, N. D., The evolutionary consequences of biological invasions. Molecular Ecology, 17: 351–360. 2008

PLB

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