Hello Peter B. & All,

I am back. Been out of town! ( Miss me!)

You missed my point on the internet thing Peter in my opinion so will try to
explain.

I agreed with you that tens of thousands of articles exist saying AHb drones
fly faster. AHb genetics dominate. AHB would be the end of U.S. migratory
beekeeping. Each new article references prior  articles and some might be up
to fifty years old.

I could easily write a book (larger than the health care bill) filled with
all the information and hypothesis about what would happen when AHB entered
the U.S..  At the end of the book list countless pages of references. The
way AHb will take over U.S. beekeeping.

All this mass of information ( costing tax payers millions of dollars)  says
the entire south would NOW be PURE scutellata ! ( 20 years!)

Beekeeping is alive and well in Mexico and my friends which own or have an
interest in Mexico say they see the same situation as in the Rio Grande
Valley. Workable bees with a *hot* hive once in awhile. Able to keep
European stock.

I said I agreed about all that has been written . No need to keep pulling up
research about the hypothesis. Each article is so similar when comes to what
will happen after AHb has been in the U.S. 20 years.

What I do not agree with is  the predictions (or conclusions) many
researchers put forward which DID NOT HAPPEN.

I am gone again tomorrow but could pull up a number of these predictions and
then the list could attempt to show the prediction happened. Has a 1000
people died from AHb in the U.S. over the last 20 years ?

What went wrong! Why hasn't all of the Rio Grande valley AHB turned *pure*
scutelata?

Why can those beekeepers requeen with European queens. Why can David Adams
do the same in Florida?

What happened in Brazil DID NOT happen in the U.S. (  1000 +people stinging
deaths). Sure we had a few but we have always had a few bee stinging deaths.
So far none in Florida

My point it simple and please do not twist or put words in my mouth.

If what was predicted has not happened after 20 years then I do not believe
it will.

My point is the conclusions at the end of these articles were wrong! Period!

In other words in the south we will never see all colonies a. mellifera
scutellata in my opinion. In fact most of the AHb issue is kept alive by
researchers which have never seen an AHB colony.

The only point I was trying to make was I understand the researcher
hypothesis.

I bought into the researcher hypothesis in 1989

I DID ( and can not really explain why the AHB invasion did not happen as
our best researcher minds said it would)

After 10 years I started to doubt the hypothesis.
 Then 20 years passed!

 I believe the hypothesis that AHB would become pure is unfounded. Based on
my own two eyes.

Hope the above straightens the issue out!

bob

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