Dick Allen wrote:

> I'm curious to know if the other species would cohabitate at all. It seems 
> unlikely to me although
> I'm sure someone, somewhere has looked into it.

Not sure whether it can be classed as co-habiting, but I have had a 
bumblebee nest in the same brood box as a mellifera colony.  The mellifera 
colony was really only a 5 frame nuc at one end of a full sized box and the 
bumblebees lived at the other end.

Best wishes

Peter Edwards
beekeepers at stratford-upon-avon.freeserve.co.uk
www.stratford-upon-avon.freeserve.co.uk/

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