Hi all You should be able to access photographs of pedigreed AM scutellata at the following web address: http://www.algonet.se/~beeman/za/za-1.htm The tens of thousands of bees in the hive are, of course, so-called African killer bees. The human in the pics is, fortunately, far from dead. These pictures were kindly taken by P-O Gustafsson, who was out in South Africa from Sweden to attend the recent Apimondia meeting. The pedigree scutellata queen in the pictures was instrumentally inseminated. One of the results of a seven year closed breeding programme, she was photographed happily laying an egg in comb exposed to open air. As pointed out in the captions to the pics, this line of pedigreed scutellata has been upsized to produce a worker cell around 5.2mm. These bees are docile, and outproduce wild/feral scutellata by at least 33%. As such, it may be stated that these are probably the most productive honeybees in the world. None of the bees you see in the pictures have been treated for any pest/disease whatsoever, be it varroa or anything else. There are other pics of South African beekeeping at: http://www.algonet.se/~beeman/ Just click on pictures, and then South Africa, etc. Best regards to you all Barry Sergeant Kyalami South Africa