> Bob Harrison wrote:
>
>>You can't *knowingly* keep African bees in Missouri but who is looking. 
>>AHB
>>genetics are widespread in the U.S.
>
Peter asked:
> I don't know what the basis is for this claim.

I am not sure what the question is?

In Missouri we gave our state bee inspector the power to depopulate hives 
which test AHB. None has been looked at ,tested or depopulated to my 
knowledge. I depopulate all mine but not sure what the other guys do.

AHB genetics can be found (if looked for) in most migratory operations I 
have been told. No restricitions of migratory movement in and out of areas 
of AHB has been done since the first 3000 hive migratory operation was held 
in Texas( Rio Grande valley)  for a couple years (1989). A commercial beek 
in California reported several years ago in ABF he had AHB in his operation 
for over ten years.


> African mtDNA first appeared in the feral Arizonan population in 1995, 
> with
> the percentage of colonies exhibiting African mtDNA rising to 74% by 1999.
> The data suggest that African mitochondrial frequencies were still rising
> but approaching an equilibrium level. Consistent with this interpretation, 
> a
> study in 2005 at another site in the Sonoran desert of Arizona reported
> African mtDNA in 86% of colonies.
>
bob

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