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Australian vs US bees
September 6, 2007 by Anonymous, 2 years 9 weeks ago
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not that I'm any sort of geneticist [sp?], but follow the logic for a moment. the ISLAND [ok so its a big island] of Australia is considered one of the most bio-secure and life form isolated locations on the planet, hence kangaroos.
The fact that there is no die off of honeybees is totally unsurprising there to me. It just seems that if there is/was a virus or fungus that might have originated from Australia and was inadvertently imported, the bees from Australia would have had to evolve with an immunity to it or they would be dead.
But what do I know?