>>...I think you are tring to type AHB.

Yes, I meant AHB not AFB!  (It's a problem having to deal with so many acronyms!)

>>AHB...can take over EHB colonies for smaller
fly faster and therefore get to mate first...

I thought AHB produced more drones earlier in the season and, therefore, predominated but I suppose AHB drones could be faster as well.

>>On top of that we help, by time of year mating and never
keeping overly aggressive bees like beekeepers have been
doing for centuries.

Do you replace the queen from an overly aggressive hive with a queen produced from your known gentle stock?

>>...many coming here say our bees are gentlier then
theirs back home.

Yes, folks from this list who have been to your hives have said it.  This is very encouraging.  I keep my bees in a residential area.  Even though we are in the Northeast and have not heard of AHB-type defensiveness in our area, it could come one day.  It's good to hear that a watchful beekeeper can prevail with a gentle stock despite of AHB-type ferals in the same area.

I know beekeepers in Mexico and South America run hives with the AHB with the appropriate precautions.  Someone from South Africa who keeps gentle scuts also posted here before.

Waldemar

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