Could artificial selection solve the killer bee problem entirely?
In the early 1800’s, the European bees weren’t much nicer than today’s Africanized bees. In the 1850’s, a beekeeper invented the movable white box type of hive that let you open the hive, take it apart and find the queen. That gave beekeepers the ability to select for the traits they wanted. Through artificial selection, we went from nasty to nice decent bees within a half-century. So this has a precedent, and not just in bees but in every other domesticated animal.
