I live in Florida, and hear about "Africanized Bees" all the time. We are required by the state to requeen any feral hive we collect to get the African genetics, that may be present, out of the hive. My quesiton is: Why don't the "African" genetics weaken as they continually mate with the...

The pun is intended. I am in Zimbabwe, Southern Africa. So I guess I am one of the few African bee keepers on the Forums. I started keeping bees in 2008 after inheriting three Langstroths (one colonised) from a friend who emigrated. The other two have since been colonised too. I work with...