Thanks for stepping in Mike, and supplying us with some facts -- and
perspective.

> US commercial bees would most certainly not be able to handle
> capensis, and it would be likely to cause great devastation if released.

Can you speculate over what period of time that would ocur, and how the
beginning of such problems might manifest themselves and be recognised?
Would they be immediate and obvious, or slow, subtle, and hard to
recognise?

I realise that this is asking you to make some guesses, and it would be
understandable if you would prefer not to do so, but whatever you can do to
sketch out a possible scenario would be most instructive.

allen
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