On Sat, 11 Oct 1997, Greg Hankins wrote:
> >Hi All
> >I have just been wondering what the stance is in areas where bees are
> >an introduced species towards their presence in Nature reserves?
> I've read about a honey bee extermination program on a California Island
> (Santa Cruz Island?) that is a preserved owned (I think) by the Nature
> Conservancy. There may have been an article on it in Root's Bee Culture
> magazine a few months ago.
FWIW.  I hear that the bees on Catalina Island are the only mite-free bees
in the country.  Thousands of hives making mega honey because the bees are
entirely unmolested by parasites of any kind.
 
        Rich
 
 
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