I just called the Apiary Inspection Service office here at Texas A&M and asked a few questions about Africanized bees, the Weaver's, etc. and was informed that they have a "European Certification Program" here where they take samples of bees and send them to the lab to determine their genetics and certify them as European (assuming that they ARE European) and that allows beekeepers to move their hives out of quarantined (AHB) counties into non-quarantined areas, or to sell them certifying that they are European. This program, I was told, has been in place for the past 6 years, and the Weavers have participated in it since the program started. I do not know exactly what the lab tests are or what they are looking for when they measure "Africanness" but I assume there is some standard measure of some genetic material above some threshold value that determines whether they are African or European. The inspector I spoke with also told me that if keeping bees in our area he recommended requeening any swarm so that all hives would have known genetics. So as to be explicit just in case someone might misunderstand what I wrote above, the Apiary Inspection Service has the certification program for Texas beekeepers, and the Weavers participate in the program. Layne Westover