> Invasive species or not, if AHB are more in tune with the floral sources,
> they will win by outperforming the competition.

Perhaps that means something and people will explain it to me, but, to me,
that appears to be a very general, sweeping, and faily meaningless
statement.

I would suspect that different locales have different flora, and that some
would favour one sort of bee and some another.  Also, "outperforming" means
meeting different criteria in differing applications and regions.

Also, I think that "being in tune" is not a huge factor in "outperforming
the competition, if it ranks at all."

I think that, as Janice suggested, getting up earlier and working harder
(and mating competitively) are bigger by far.

allen


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