Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!samsung!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!mips!bridge2!3comvax!michaelm From: michaelm@vax.MCD.3Com.Com (Michael McNeil) Newsgroups: sci.bio Subject: Re: Killer bee invasion? Message-ID: <3929@3comvax.MCD.3Com.Com> Date: 28 Sep 90 18:08:42 GMT References: <39338@shemp.CS.UCLA.EDU> <1990Sep28.163755.23272@cid.aes.doe.CA> Organization: 3Com Corp., Santa Clara, CA Lines: 37 In article <1990Sep28.163755.23272@cid.aes.doe.CA>, afsipmh@cid.aes.doe.CA (Patrick Hertel) writes: >In article <39338@shemp.CS.UCLA.EDU> frazier@oahu.cs.ucla.edu (Greg Frazier) >writes: >>In article Christian.Molick@CS.CMU.EDU writes: >>>I had heard that the killer bee was going to reach >>>the southern US this summer. Did it? >> >>Yes. > > Eh?(Canadianism) Want to expand on that? I understand that as they > have been wending their way north interbreeding has taken some of > the sting(punism) out of them. My understanding is the exact opposite -- that one of the mysteries we're trying to find out about the Africanized "killer" bees is just why, after many thousands of miles of migration, and after mixing with many different European bee populations, the Africanized bees have acquired virtually none of the European bee characteristics nor lost any of their African-bee heritage of aggressiveness. -- Michael McNeil michaelm@vax.DSD.3Com.COM (3comvax.UUCP) 3Com Corporation ucbvax!hplabs!oliveb!3comvax!michaelm Santa Clara, California work telephone: (408) 492-1790 x 5-208 [May one] doubt whether, in cheese and timber, worms are generated, or, if beetles and wasps, in cow-dung, or if butterflies, locusts, shellfish, snails, eels, and such life be procreated of putrefied matter, which is to receive the form of that creature to which it is by formative power disposed[?] To question this is to question reason, sense, and experience. If he doubts this, let him go to Egypt, and there he will find the fields swarming with mice begot of the mud of the Nylus, to the great calamity of the inhabitants. A seventeenth century opinion quoted by L. L. Woodruff, *The Evolution of Earth and Man*, 1929