On Thu, 29 Jan 1998, Peter Fruehwirth wrote:
 
> Be aware of transfer asian bee races to other continents!!!
> Tropilaelaps clarae and Euvarroa sinhai will bring much more troubles to us than Varroa .
 
 
Introduction of A. dorsata or any other honey bee species (other than A.
mellifera) into the U.S., at least (the bee regulations of Canada and
other North American countries may be more lenient), is illegal, except
under certain narrowly prescribed circumstances, under the Honey
Bee Act of 1922. Also, as probably every state's apiary laws require
honey bees to be kept in movable-frame hives, this would preclude American
beekeepers' keeping dorsata and other non-hive honey bees.
 
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"To a rough approximation and setting aside vertebrate chauvinism, it can
   be said that essentially all organisms are insects."--R.M. May (1988)
"Bugs are not going to inherit the earth. They own it now. So we might as
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