I haven't been keeping up with this thread, but....
in discussions of this, it is often overlooked that the Spanish
were in Mexico in about 1535, and brought the Catholic church,
with the attendant (mandatory) use of beeswax for candles. Ask you
local priest. How many years does it take for bees to work their
way from Monterrey to the (now) USA?
Besides, Spanish ships were travelling the Pacific coast.
- John Edwards
On Tue Nov 27 16:29:33 PST 2007, Mike Stoops
<[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Bill Truesdell <[log in to unmask]> wrote:One interesting
> fact is the honeybee was called the "white man's fly. So did they
> precede the settlers or were they concurrent?
>
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