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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 <AawARSW00h5K4VwEUY@cs.cmu.edu> 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.

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