On Tue, 2 Mar 1999, John Edwards wrote: that Adrian Wenner wrote: > > > Apparently, the first United States honey bees arrived in the Virginia > > Colony in 1622 (a bit of research confirmed by Eva Crane in her volume, > > ARCHEOLOGY OF BEEKEEPING). By 1654 they had reached New England. Lee > > Watkins documented the arrival of bees in California, the first in 1853. > > Walter Sheppard published quite a complete account > > We (actually, Steve Buchmann) came up with about 1535 for the hbees landing in > Monterrey, Mexico... The first honey bees successfully introduced into Hawaii (3 hives from San Jose, California) arrived in Honolulu in October 1857. ************************************************************************* Tom Culliney Hawaii Dept. of Agriculture, Division of Plant Industry, 1428 South King St., Honolulu, HI 96814, U.S.A. E-mail: [log in to unmask] Telephone: 808-973-9528 FAX: 808-973-9533 "To a rough approximation and setting aside vertebrate chauvinism, it can be said that essentially all organisms are insects."--R.M. May (1988) "Bugs are not going to inherit the earth. They own it now. So we might as well make peace with the landlord."--T. Eisner (1989) +nCvYylwv4