Chuck Norton writes:
This broad survey established a databank or database 
for honeybee genera and morphological data frozen in time
and mapped distribution of all subspecies of Apis
melliferia across America. It is from this forethought that
we have our data for morphological, FABIS, and mtDNA
comparison.

Reply:
Yet there were unresolved disputes if memory serves me
correctly back in the late 1980s between the different
personnel doing testing and setting up standards........

One that comes to mind, at least to me was with Roger Morse
and Prof H. V. Daly, and was even published in a reshearchy
review with Dr Morses comments that I don't think was ever
resolved. In it Dr Morse says:"Professor H.V. Daly of the
University of Calif told me the following:'We have found a
few colonies of feral honey bees in Calif that have the
morphometric characteristics of Africanized bees. But
further testing of alozymes, cuticular hydrocarbons and
worker brood comb cell diameter indicates these colonies
are European. This is a gind of genetic variation we didn't
know about.' I asked professor Daly if this could be an
explanation for the finding of AFricanized bees in
California earlier and he replied it was not. The question
of identifying races of bees ramains a difficult one."

Which to me is still.........going on....and how many of
these discrepencies are still being found in California, as
I really don't think caucasian similar bees, like we have
in S. Arizona and San Diego can be properly ID'd yet,
especially with those of us on SC.

Can anyone verify the corrections were made and where and
when published????? I would certainly like to know.

Respectfully submitted,

Dee A. Lusby
Small Cell Commercial Beekeeper
Moyza, Arizona
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/organicbeekeepers/





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