On 5/30/2012 6:01 AM, Peter L Borst wrote:
> This further persuaded me that European bees are bigger, have always
> been bigger, and the presence of exclusively smaller bees indicates
> complete Africanization. There is no real gray area in the case of
> regions where Africanization is complete, only in the hybridization
> zone. It may be that the entire US is now a hybridization zone.
I might agree with you, subject to somebody getting way out there where
I sampled in the late 80s-early 90s and doing the full morphometrics
without discarding the longer-winged samples.
- John Edwards
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