You have the grad student defense synopsis, long before it will be published. We did the FABIS and USDA-ID to correlate with Ashley's DNA studies. When the data is finally released I will make it available. Wing venation is still very unreliable. Wing length from the proximal hook to tip is accurate. Forewing cubital indices combined with hind wing length, femor length and first visible sternite ratio is highly accurate. FABIS you can run with a good dissection microscope and calibration with tables. USDA-ID you will need all that and a mounting solution and permission from the USDA for the software. There is only one certified USDA-ID trainer and you will have to fly him in from Hawaii.
A lot of wild speculation was made about Africanized bees. If you compare what was said and is still repeated to the actual spread of AHB and actual verified incidents, you would wonder why somebody is not in jail for defrauding the public. Did any one mention or even notice that AHB do not remain where there is 55 inches of annual rainfall (1100 MM) besides the Beltsville ARS Bee Lab. Look at a map of Africa, South America or North America with Scutellata plotted. it does not take a rocket scientist to tell someone has cranial rectumitis.
Maps at the bottom of the web page http://americasbeekeeper.org/Africanized_Honey_Bee.htm
There was a plan back in the 1980s to raise European bees in Panama and saturate the isthmus with EHB. This is actually not a new concept just a proven one now.
A lot of wild speculation was made about Africanized bees. If you compare what was said and is still repeated to the actual spread of AHB and actual verified incidents, you would wonder why somebody is not in jail for defrauding the public. Did any one mention or even notice that AHB do not remain where there is 55 inches of annual rainfall (1100 MM) besides the Beltsville ARS Bee Lab. Look at a map of Africa, South America or North America with Scutellata plotted. it does not take a rocket scientist to tell someone has cranial rectumitis.
Maps at the bottom of the web page http://americasbeekeeper.org/Africanized_Honey_Bee.htm
There was a plan back in the 1980s to raise European bees in Panama and saturate the isthmus with EHB. This is actually not a new concept just a proven one now.
