Dear friends, Things happen fast when you get on Internet's Bee Line. I now have an assignment from New Scientist to write a feature on the bumblebee pollination business and Africanized bees invading North America. I would appreciate hearing from researchers who have news or good color photos for this article. I intend to cover the (apparent) failure of breeding European genes into the Africanized bees, their likely flyways (someone is using GIS for this), any hints of punitive legislation, plans by growers of crops (alfalfa? Cotton? Almonds?) which might be hard hit by a bee-ban to do anything else, etc. I wrote an article on the USDA and Africanized bees a couple of years ago for The Scientist (Rinderer, Collins and Taylor). I would like to talk to others this time out. Jonathan D. Beard 820 West End Avenue 3B New York City 10025-5328 212-749-1055 MCI 308-5680 Compuserve 72301,563 Fax 212-662-3426 Internet [log in to unmask]