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On Tue, 2 Mar 1999, John Edwards wrote:
that Adrian Wenner wrote:
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> > 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
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> 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.
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"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)
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