Dick wrote > If memory serves me correctly, I've read (but can't remember where) that > cerana and mellifera > bees have been shown to mate, although no offspring was produced. Yes there is a paper out from Japan, which I cannot put my hands on at the moment, which showed that Apis mellifera carnica queens mated with Apis cerana drones and there was no viable brood produced. Trevor Weatherhead AUSTRALIA **************************************************** * General Information About BEE-L is available at: * * http://www.honeybeeworld.com/bee-l/default.htm * ****************************************************