Peter writes:

According to Dr. Schneider:

The African bee arrived in Arizona in 1993 and has
subsequently established large populations that contain few
or no European matrilines.

Reply:
Funny the local beekeeping industry did not see this with
everyone watching bees closely.

Continuing:
The mountains surrounding the Tucson basin harbor a large
population of feral African colonies and forage
availability at these higher elevations declines during the
fall and winter months.  This may result in 
large-scale absconding into the Tucson basin, where
horticultural and agricultural activity result in increased
floral abundance during this period.

Reply:
Also, this I find in direct confict with real world as the
oaks, willows, cottonwoods, pine, sycamore,
mesquite/catsclaw trees, not to name shrubs and ground
cover are all in the hills and in elevations outside the
limit of AHB even by early map done by Taylor and Spivak
even that surround Tucson, which is not agricultural by a
long-shot, except in road medians, for houses cover the
rest, along with golf courses with grass mostly.

Regards,

Dee 


 
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