Allen Dick wrote:

> Another possibility is trucks with bees going by on the roads and losing bees
> along the way.  Some time back Jerry mentioned some observations showing that
> many bees find any local hives within miles in a very short time when lost off
> trucks in good weather, and are accepted by them.

As a matter of fact - citing again the research into the capensis problem in the
South African summer rainfall area - this has been the main cause for the spread of
the capensis bee throughout the countryside. Each of these bees in our case,
however, became a pseudo queen, disrupting colonies all along the migratory routes.

Robert Post