Whilst reading Bill Bryson's book Made in America , I came across the
following quote from the Lewis and Clark expedition of 1804- Clarks
journal :
"Sunday 25th a fair morning ,river rose 14 Inch last night , the men
find numbers of Bee Trees , & take great quantities of honey.........."
This was at the start of their journey up the Missouri - By 1804 the new
Bee inhabitants of America had obviously long since made their bid for
freedom and become well established in the wild. Are there still  Bee
trees on the Missouri ? Clark goes on to say in his eccentric spelling
".......The musquetors are verry bad this evening " - No change there I
suspect.
 
Alan Riach