THE CAPE BEE - NOT THE ANSWER FOR CALIFORNIA

Two years ago South African migratory beekeepers moved colonies of Cap e bees into the Transvaal and Natal, both these provinces being Africa n bee territory. The subsequent invasion of apiaries by Cape laying wo rkers resulted in the virtual collapse of the bee industry in those ar eas. The reports in the American Bee Journal covering the disaster wer e intended by their author primarily as a warning to the world's beeke epers about the dangers of importing the Cape bee into their countries . However judging by letters received by the author from several ABJ r eaders, it is clear that the message carried in those reports has some how gone astray.