randy oliver wrote:
> An interesting note (thanks to Janet Brisson).
> Honey bees were well established in New England by 1654.  They still 
> didn't made it on their own to California during the ensuing 200 
> years, and had to be shipped in.  This was a rate of dispersal far 
> slower than the AHB. Again, the geographical barriers surely played a 
> part.
Different routes, different barriers. To get a good comparison, it would 
be interesting if bees were found in Ohio before settlers came in. One 
interesting fact is the honeybee was called the "white man's fly. So did 
they precede the settlers or were they concurrent?

Bill Truesdell
Bath, Maine

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