>>The recent post was about a beekeeper which keep the black small African bee capensis which is not aggressive.

I'm sorry, Bob.  I was recalling a post from about a year ago.  A South African beekeeper said he kept gentle scuts.  Unfortunately, I don't recall his name but he included an interesting web link showing his bees.

I did a quick web search for 'gentle scutellata South Africa.'  The first sight that came up was http://www.answers.com/topic/africanized-bee.  Scroll down to Gentle Africanized Bees.  There are different strains of scuts just as there are strains of EHBs.

>>He said the AHB stinging problem was growing in Arizona.

No doubt.  I would approach any hive in AHB territory with the maximum of pre-cautions [and protection!] until making sure it's not extremely defensive!!  One has one life to live.

Waldemar

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