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  • From: "Greg and April" <gregandapril@earthlink.net>
  • To: "Healthy soil and sustainable growing" <livingontheland@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [Livingontheland] Random innoculations?
  • Date: Fri, 7 Jul 2006 09:39:46 -0600

IIRC, African bee queens were brought to South America to see if honey production could be improved.

A local worker that didn't know what he was doing, saw that pollen was being scraped off, by the queen excluders ( that kept queens in the hive ) and thinking he would help, and removed the excluder, allowing release of African bee queens.

With the breeding of African queens by local males, produced a bee that was more aggressive than both parents. Much more aggressive than local bees, and moderately more aggressive than pure strain African bees.

Some good news, many scientist believe that while the bees with African genes have reached the US, the level of aggressiveness has tapered off a bit, as Africanized bees in Texas will attack up to 300-500 yards from the hive, while in many places in South America, they will attack out to 800-1000 yards from the hive.

Greg H.



----- Original Message ----- From: "Marty Kraft" <martyk@allspecies.org>
To: "Healthy soil and sustainable growing" <livingontheland@lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Friday, July 07, 2006 7:33
Subject: Re: [Livingontheland] Random innoculations?


The more
aggressive African bee was imported to South America for "science" and
was turned loose.





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