You'd think that the Africanized bees would've been mentioned, but it has to be a consideration. Might they have carried parasites with them that could devastate the indigenous populations of the territories they've invaded?
Here's a link to a page with downloads of bee colony stats going back into the 70's is somebody has time to leaf through these today....
http://usda.mannlib.cornell.edu/Mann...ocumentID=1191
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