IMHO, if the migratory beekeepers continue "business as usual" by 
bringing all-of-them north every year, eventually these 
unselected, wild-type AHBs will get selected for cold weather. How 
about imagining bees that can overwinter in Minnesota, and are "a 
little more feisty"?

This is prob not a popular view, but experiences on the front in 
Tucson lead us (me and several others) to see the AHB at about the 
same stage as coyotes, that is - unselected and possessing the 
wide genetics to make selection under pressure quite rapid.
They can also be selected for gentleness, if you have the time.

I guess I could point out the spread of coyotes into NEUS cities, 
but that might be a stretch....
   - John Edwards, Vancouver, WA

On Tue Aug 21 15:29:12 PDT 2007, Lloyd Spear <[log in to unmask]> 
wrote:

> 
> In a conversation last week I was told by a migratory beekeeper 
> who winters
> in FL that "we all are bringing them north because we don't 
> necessarily know
> they are Africanized when we put them on the truck.'  'After a 
> few weeks in
> the NYS yards, you find out in a hurry which ones are 
> Africanized, and keep
> away from them when in the yards.....

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