Hello Keith and All, Keith wrote: > Dee and Ed Lusby may have already done this, and now, all we have to do is hope that they will share their stock so we can utilize it. I have been waiting for this post to interject. I knew the post was coming. The Africanized bee was brought into Brazil to create a *super bee*. Why not after all the world record for honey production from a single hive was from an apiary from which Warwick Kerr got part of his queens. Africanized *genes* are serious business! Removing queens and bees from a area of documented AHb is illegal for a reason. To prevent the spread of AHB. I can provide pages of USDA documentation to the fact Arizona's bees are to be considered Africanized. The Lusbys say their bees are not ahb but have no proof and the USDA says all of Arizona is AHB from their research. I would need some official inspection that the stock was not AHb before I would order queens from an area which according to the *2001* USDA AHB spread map is the highest concentration of AHB in the U.S. for a single state. The USDA source map can be found on page 22 of Dr. Dewey Caron's new book published by A.I.Root (2001)"Africanized Honey Bees In The Americas". The United States Department of Agriculture is not perfect but I have found the information I have received from the dept. very accurate through the years. I say *If* Dee wants to sell her queens then she gets the inspection department running again and gets USDA inspection before illegally shipping any more queens. I suggest beekeepers even considering buying queens illegally out of a documented AHB area to buy and read the new Dewey Caron book first. Even though the Arizona inspection department was dropped (while Dee was president of the state associasion) it is still illegal to ship queens out of a documented AHB area as Blane pointed out. I do this post in the interest of U.S. beekeeping . Rules are made for a reason. In this case to prevent the spread Africanized genes. Sincerely, Bob Harrison