>I highly doubt that he would agree with your interpretation/extrapolation of their paper. perhaps not, but it's worth noting that Seeley discovered the Feral's of the Arnot Forest were still present while working under the assumption they were gone and doing due diligence to make sure they were truly gone before embarking on just such a "rewilding" experiment using Russian bees. *********************************************** The BEE-L mailing list is powered by L-Soft's renowned LISTSERV(R) list management software. For more information, go to: https://na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.lsoft.com%2FLISTSERV-powered.html&data=04%7C01%7C%7C58e8cee656ef4605cc7b08d8c6e0f927%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C637478016833264543%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C1000&sdata=zDKBiaojGB6Dqf%2FimGBv0y0G9ifrTKR2ujv2u15KjUI%3D&reserved=0 *********************************************** The BEE-L mailing list is powered by L-Soft's renowned LISTSERV(R) list management software. For more information, go to: http://www.lsoft.com/LISTSERV-powered.html