aggienaut | Killer Bee Clone Wars (Reply)

Today I found out the boss is going to pay to send me to the California Beekeepers Association Annual Convention at Lake Tahoe Nov 11-13th. Dave himself likely can't make it due to litigation he will have going through Court at the time. I am excited. I like trips (as you may have noticed), and the schedule looks really interesting.

Also I've been meaning to write an entry for awhile now about Apis mellifera capensis. Here it is:

   Killer bees. You have no doubt heard of them. After being accidently introduced to Brazil (from Tanzania) by a mad scientist (Warwick Kerr; my boss actually has met him and reports he's a very nice man) in 1957, the Africanized Honeybees slowly spread through the Americas. By the early nineties they had reached the southern United States and there was panic. Now they are pervasive across the southern reaches of the United States, since they easily outcompete European Honeybees (there are no native American Honeybees).
   However this entry is not about Killer Bees. This entry is about the bees that are actually driving killer bees out of their own homeland.

   Bees that can clone themselves.

( The Killer Bee Clone Wars )