Peter Borst wrote:

> At 2/3/02 06:50 PM, you wrote:
> >Just what are the bees of the Americas????
>

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>  As a final note, about ten years ago, Erickson said that there *might* bee feral colonies of Apis mellifera iberica (the bee the Spanish brought with them) living in the mountains of the southwest. I wonder if any of these were ever found.

Actually, that was my theory, and one of the reasons I took on "trying" to survey several million acres by myself. I'm glad at least one of my ideas got some exposure. And I'm sure I wasn't the first to think of the possibility, just the first to really try to look at the huge area of SW Arizona.  ;-)
   - John Edwards, Vancouver, WA  (now planning to find out if Bigfoot knows beekeeping)