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Hayden Bee Lab, USDA-ARS,Tucson, Arizona |
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> On Mon, 2 Nov 1998 20:47:42 -0800, [log in to unmask] (Peter Amschel)
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> No behavioral measurement are made in Africanized regulatory tests in
> the US.
True
> One reason for this is that in the past we have been able to
> demonstrate bad behavior in bees that exceeds anything reported in
> Africanized bees prior or since to its introduction into the US.
Part II : This reason is just not true - Dr Spangler, of our lab, has developed
an inexpensive device to measure aggressiveness, which has not been widely
used. I have personally witnessed tests of aggressiveness which would literally
knock your socks off. I cannot accept the statement that the level of stinging
bees has not gone up since the AHB arrived. I have worked with hived and feral
bees for 34 years in Tucson, seldom selected for gentleness.
- John Edwards, Tucson
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