My take on all the Dna and research on this,it has little help or reality in the real world,to do anything but cause alot of mis information,even for government officials to use.

  It seems that most research is grant motivated,and is only done if the person can get funding and i.e. keep working by the grant motivated research,and alot of times the work is not of any benefit.

 Granted here in Florida ,there will be more feral swarms showing up as is the case in my area,but I have to think theres to many managed hives still around for pure swarms to "take" over the state.
 Unfortunately everyone has an agenda to gain out of it besides help beekeeping,i.e. , pest control operators,with bee knowledge,our own Apiary dept which is trying to place themselves as the only hope to keep our beloved tourists safe,and save the department from the budget ax.
  A good example,I'm told that,here, if I as a beekeeper spray a feral swarm with soapy water,the soap now becomes a pesticide,and I have to have a pest control license to do so ,if I'm paid.
 I can't help but think that if all the money spent on  tex-mex bee studies had been put toward mite resistant breeding and studies,nosema controls and other more serious problems ,how much better off the beekeeping worldwide would be.
  But I'm a hands on thinking kind of person,I shouldn't even be taking time to make sense of this,I need to have my head in some bee hives right now.
  I just can't stand mis information being spread like wildfire about the way things really are in what I  do for a living,the thread shifted from Dna to behavior ,but the two go hand in hand.

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