A small caveat from the southern end of Africa. You are referring to a
continent with a variety of local populations of honeybees with
different behaviour characteristics. Behaviours that are characteristic
of the east African topics are not seen in southern sub-tropical
populations where climate and ecology are quite different.
Robin M Crewe
Dept of Zoology Phone 27-11-716-3167(W)
Univ of the Witwatersrand 27-11-442-5469(H)
Johannesburg FAX 27-11-339-3959
2050 South Africa e-mail [log in to unmask]