With his tongue firmly in his cheek, Chris said "In the US the honeybee is
an unnatural introduction and thrives in a largely
artificial environment and a lot of people earn their bread and honey
thereby."

Well...if it comes to unnatural introductions (that need to be
exterminated?) we need to include dandelions, purple loosestrife,
knapweed, Queen Anne's Lace, and Englishmen (but not those from Wales)!

With honey at about $.52 a pound (£.33), not many are earning bread alone
from this land of milk and honey!  The exception of course, and here comes
the commercial, is comb honey which is cheerfully selling for around $7-$9 a
pound (£4.40-£5.60) a pound, and the market is many thousand of pounds short
of demand!

Lloyd
Lloyd Spear, Owner, Ross Rounds, Inc.  The finest in comb honey production.
www.rossrounds.com