Randy wrote

> The Hive and the Honey Bee states that wax moth likely evolved with
> ancestral Asian bees.  Does anyone on the List have information as to when
> Apis m.m. first came into contact with it?  This is very curious to me 
> that
> Amm would have not developed strong detection and eradication behaviors 
> for
> this common hive pest.

This is curious.  If wax moth came to Australia in the 1870's or earlier 
then I doubt there was any Asian connection.  Bees were coming from Britain 
and Ireland and then Italy and the USA.  I also doubt there was a connection 
between Asia and Britain, Ireland, Italy or the USA beewise in those days. 
The only other way was that wax moth came to these countries in other 
products and moved across onto honey bees.  This could be the way it moved 
from Asia to these other countries, even Australia.

Trevor Weatherhead
AUSTRALIA 

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