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John Edwards <[log in to unmask]>
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Mon, 4 Jun 2012 16:04:03 -0700
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On 5/30/2012 6:01 AM, Peter L Borst wrote:
> This further persuaded me that European bees are bigger, have always 
> been bigger, and the presence of exclusively smaller bees indicates 
> complete Africanization. There is no real gray area in the case of 
> regions where Africanization is complete, only in the hybridization 
> zone. It may be that the entire US is now a hybridization zone.
I might agree with you, subject to somebody getting way out there where 
I sampled in the late 80s-early 90s and doing the full morphometrics 
without discarding the longer-winged samples.
     - John Edwards

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