Peter: The wing venation is the first criterion and a follow-up DNA test is required to confirm. Where African bees predominate, such as Arizona, or Texas, the chance of having bees free of Africanization is slim. Reply: Then when the samples given to several labs match I will believe this, until then, not having matching reports with bees from same hives and sample containers sent to different labs I will continue to think otherwise, especially with from what I have been told 25% still un-identifyable fwiw. Dee ____________________________________________________________________________________ Never miss a thing. Make Yahoo your home page. http://www.yahoo.com/r/hs **************************************************** * General Information About BEE-L is available at: * * http://www.honeybeeworld.com/bee-l/default.htm * ****************************************************