Peter,
	If you reread the post you will see whe was laughing about the
shiny black bees because of an "isn't that funny looking" reason. We
didn't know as much about intermorphs then. Further it should be
recognize that Dee is talking about "in the 1980s", well before african
bees approached the US border. They had just reached mexico in the
1980s. So although it seems that intermorphs are now used to detect an
AHB presense in the area, the intermorph bees it seems were here long
before AHB were.

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Scot McPherson
The McPherson Family Honey Farms
Davenport, Iowa USA

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