In article <[log in to unmask]>, Dee
Lusby <[log in to unmask]> writes
>Erik wrote:
>bees in
>Peru building combs in holes in trees the same way as bees
>in Europe.

>Dee A. Lusby (This makes me feel better about Eva Crane for
>documentation is scattered and few, but glad the above is
>in a book she did and now I'd certainly like to know who
>was observing the european like comb by bees in Peru back
>then)

You have made something of a leap into the unknown by the (apparently
slight) wording change between the Crane quotation and what you wrote..

The two statements do not actually match up. An observation of *extreme*
age of bees building comb in cavities 'the same way as bees in Europe',
does NOT actually say that the comb is 'European like'. We don't know
anything about the comb in question other than it is constructed in a
cavity.

Nor are we likely ever to know.
--
Murray McGregor