Hi All I have just been wondering what the stance is in areas where bees are an introduced species towards their presence in Nature reserves? Do Park rangers actively get rid of the bees so that their pollination presence does not skew the plant populations from what it should have been? (It seems that if one has an unatural pollinator not suited to an otherwise natural plant population, you will end up with a sort of over pollination of certain plants and under pollination of others because of bee hive fidelity which is not a factor with other pollinators like Bombus, but the bees competition will reduce Bombus populations etc) The thought of those poor rangers in Arizona in the Grand Canyon on long ladders and absailing equipment getting rid of AHB cliff colonies already makes me wonder! Also in Australia and New Zealand? Just a thought. Garth (Who loves the honey flow from those unatural Australian trees that each are an aerial forest in their own right!) --- Garth Cambray Kamdini Apiaries 15 Park Road Apis melifera capensis Grahamstown 800ml annual precipitation 6139 Eastern Cape South Africa Phone 27-0461-311663 3rd year Biochemistry/Microbiology Rhodes University In general, generalisations are bad. Interests: Flii's and Bees.