On Tue, 2 Mar 1999, John Edwards wrote:
 
that Adrian Wenner wrote:
>
> >    Apparently, the first United States honey bees arrived in the Virginia
> > Colony in 1622 (a bit of research confirmed by Eva Crane in her volume,
> > ARCHEOLOGY OF BEEKEEPING).  By 1654 they had reached New England.  Lee
> > Watkins documented the arrival of bees in California, the first in 1853.
> > Walter Sheppard published quite a complete account
>
> We (actually, Steve Buchmann) came up with about 1535 for the hbees landing in
> Monterrey, Mexico...
 
The first honey bees successfully introduced into Hawaii (3 hives from
San Jose, California) arrived in Honolulu in October 1857.
 
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