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> Abbe D. Francesco Saverio Clavigero ... wrote there are at least six different kinds of bees in our new world way back in the mid 1700s.
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>1. The 1st is the same as the common bee of Europe, with which it agres, not only in size, shape and color, but also
>in its disposition and manners, and in the qualities of its honey and wax.

Would you like to give the Title and Page Numbers, so we can look that up? Bear in mind, he was writing 200 years *after* the Spanish arrived and could have been describing bees that *they* brought in 1560. Bear in mind also:

>The desert regions of northern Mexico and southern Arizona have the richest diversity of bees found anywhere in the world. Although there is no exact count, a bee scientist at the USDA Carl Hayden Bee Research Center says there are between 1,000 and 1,200 species of bees within 100 miles of Tucson!