See "Stealth Bees" in the archives. "We found bees with characteristics of both workers and queens in African honey bee, Apis mellifera scutellata colonies, African usurpation swarms and in colonies of European honey bees, Apis mellifera, in the southwestern United States. We call these females intermorphs. Intermorphs might influence worker-queen interactions and possibly influence the invasion of European honey bee colonies by African bees." pb ****************************************************** * Full guidelines for BEE-L posting are at: * * http://www.honeybeeworld.com/bee-l/guidelines.htm * ******************************************************