On 2006-10-22, sf <sf> wrote:

> Apparently that scare has pooped out. They become more docile the
> further north they go.

????

Where did you hear that, sf? Last I heard there was a hive discovered
down near Monterey. That's starting to get pretty close and I've
heard nothing about them taking 4 o'clock tea, just yet.

OTOH, I just found this. Note the "artificial selection" part:

http://www.pbs.org/saf/1204/features/bees4.htm

nb

On Sat, 21 Oct 2006 21:48:42 -0500, notbob > wrote:

>On 2006-10-22, sf <sf> wrote:
>
>> Apparently that scare has pooped out. They become more docile the
>> further north they go.
>
>????
>
>Where did you hear that, sf?

Not sure. Couldn't have been "the news". It was somewhere... maybe
Discovery. One of those things that I heard, but wasn't a big news
story. It just said that the bee scare hasn't turned out to be as bad
as they thought it would be because as they interbreed, they become
more docile.

>Last I heard there was a hive discovered
>down near Monterey. That's starting to get pretty close and I've
>heard nothing about them taking 4 o'clock tea, just yet.
>
>OTOH, I just found this. Note the "artificial selection" part:
>
>http://www.pbs.org/saf/1204/features/bees4.htm
>
Good news! With the devastation of European honey bees here (not due
to africanation) we need a heartier bee population for pollination
purposes.

Thanks
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<sf> wrote in message ...
> On Sat, 21 Oct 2006 21:48:42 -0500, notbob > wrote:
>
>>On 2006-10-22, sf <sf> wrote:
>>
>>> Apparently that scare has pooped out. They become more docile the
>>> further north they go.
>>
>>????
>>
>>Where did you hear that, sf?
>
> Not sure. Couldn't have been "the news". It was somewhere... maybe
> Discovery. One of those things that I heard, but wasn't a big news
> story. It just said that the bee scare hasn't turned out to be as bad
> as they thought it would be because as they interbreed, they become
> more docile.
>
>>Last I heard there was a hive discovered
>>down near Monterey. That's starting to get pretty close and I've
>>heard nothing about them taking 4 o'clock tea, just yet.
>>
>>OTOH, I just found this. Note the "artificial selection" part:
>>
>>http://www.pbs.org/saf/1204/features/bees4.htm
>>
> Good news! With the devastation of European honey bees here (not due
> to africanation) we need a heartier bee population for pollination
> purposes.
>
> Thanks
> --
> See return address to reply by email

I have wondered what the situation is in the Rio Grande Valley.

My Word

notbob wrote:
> On 2006-10-22, sf <sf> wrote:
>
>> Apparently that scare has pooped out. They become more docile the
>> further north they go.
>
> ????
>
> Where did you hear that, sf? Last I heard there was a hive discovered
> down near Monterey. That's starting to get pretty close and I've
> heard nothing about them taking 4 o'clock tea, just yet.
>
> OTOH, I just found this. Note the "artificial selection" part:
>
> http://www.pbs.org/saf/1204/features/bees4.htm
>
> nb
"He's doing this right in the middle of the Africanized bee territory, so
they are interbreeding with his bees. Over time, his bees are getting
progressively testy. But the bottom line is they are still manageable, still
disease and mite tolerant and still making lots of honey. Basically, what we
want are bees that are enough below the threshold of testiness that we can
stand them."

Heh... who can actually stand them? If you're out walking around and you
stumble on a nest of these KILLER bees, they can still kill you. But in all
good spirit I offer you John Belushi portraying the killer bee, which didn't
quite show up the way people expected. But then again, the land shark
didn't, either. LOL

Jill