In the areas where AHBs become established, they ARE the "feral" bees:
FERAL AFRICANIZED HONEY BEES (APIS MELLIFERA)
IN SONORAN DESERT HABITATS OF SOUTHWESTERN ARIZONA
by MICHAEL J. RABE, et al
We collected bees at 54 sites in a 5,350-km2 study area in the Sonoran
Desert of southwestern Arizona. Among collected bees, 86.9% possessed
African mtDNA.
Because *all* sampled water locations had Africanized honeybees, the data
supported the prediction that Africanized colonies would predominate in
areas with mean high temperatures in the coldest months > 19 degrees C.
from
THE SOUTHWESTERN NATURALIST
50(3):307–311
SEPTEMBER 2005
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