Barry Birkey wrote:

> Maybe not alone in your thinking, but there are other viewpoints that are
> just as pointed. I find it interesting this one point that is made in the
> article Jim Fischer posted.
>
> "Yet, despite their seeming success in the Darwinian game of outbreeding the
> competition, the Cape bee clones are apparently incapable of establishing
> self-sustaining hives of their own."

I am losing the bubble in this discussion. If the Cape Bee is not self
sustaining how is there a Cape Bee? It seems to do fine on the Cape.
Beyond that, there are problems but with mixing with other bees North of
the Cape.

How does the Cape Bee sustain itself in its local region?

Bill Truesdell
Bath, Me