>
>
> >Are you referring to bees brought by the Spanish and English? Brought
> over on sailing ships? Where are these bees now (other than Catalina
> Island, for example)?


See Magnus, R and AL Szalanski (2008) Genetic variation in honey bees from
south central United States.  Poster at 2008 ESA Open access.
or take a look at my Fig 4 at
http://scientificbeekeeping.com/whats-happening-to-the-bees-part-5-is-there-a-difference-between-domesticated-and-feral-bees/
<http://scientificbeekeeping.com/whats-happening-to-the-bees-part-5-is-there-a-difference-between-domesticated-and-feral-bees/>

I completely agree with Dick about mitochondrial analysis, but an unbroken
bloodline certainly suggests that those bloodlines have not been completely
displaced by later imports.

Pete, when you lived in San Diego years ago, you surely must have been
exposed to the hot dark wild-living bees of SoCal back then.

-- 
Randy Oliver
Grass Valley, CA
www.ScientificBeekeeping.com

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