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> Do we know how the Africanised bees got to St. Croix?

All I could find was a reference where Shimanuki states they were already in St Croix by 1996. While digging, I found this eye opener from 1988:

> How should the United States respond to the migratory front of Africanized honeybees expected to reach the southern states during the next few years? 

> Rather than attempting to stop the spread of Africanized honeybees, they should be incorporated into selective breeding programs, Fletcher says. Carefully selected African bees should be imported to enrich the Africanized honeybees' gene pool, Fletcher proposes. "No other strategy is likely to modify the Africanized bee gene pool more rapidly or more favorably," Fletcher says, The bees would thus be allowed to find their ecological limits, and then selective breeding programs would be applied in what Fletcher calls "a reenactment of the success story of American apiculture."

Laura Tangley and Julie Ann Miller, Research Update
BioScience Vol. 38, No. 5 (May, 1988), pp. 317-322

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