On 18-Jan-06, at 2:15 PM, [log in to unmask] wrote:

>
> The cold regions of Argentina have not seen widespread AHB ferals  
> and this is the only hope in sight that feral AHBs will not  
> dominate in the northern US or Canada.
>

Does Argentina have a migratory beekeeping industry to take hives  
from the AHB areas to the  "cold regions" or package bee industry  
located in the AHB area shipping packages to the "cold regions".  In  
North America migratory operators bring bees from the southern US to  
the Canadian border, then Canadian migratory operators (in Ontario at  
least) take their hives from the region adjacent to the border, 400  
miles further north.  Package bees are not allowed across the border,  
but AHB swarms certainly could cross.

Bob Darrell
Caledon Ontario
Canada
80W44N

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