> My question:: if a swarm of Afr/bees were to collect in the wheel well of
an airliner bound from central America to the US, could they survive in the 
wheel well at 40,000 ft.

My opinion would be that they would not survive as it is not pressurised.
If you travel on a plane that has the outside temperatures showing it is
normally around -50 degrees centigrade.  I can relate an instance where we
send queen cells by plane, a two hour trip, and they did not put them in a
pressurised cargo hold as they were supposed to.  They did not hatch at the
other end as they had been subjected to these cold temperatures i.e. frozen.

Trevor Weatherhead
AUSTRALIA.

 

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