I have heard that the USDA Forest Service is looking into the possibility
of controlling honey bees in certain areas of Hawaii Island. The bees are
thought to be a factor in promoting the persistance and spread of the
noxious weed Myrica faya.
 
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Thomas W. Culliney                    *       Phone: (808) 973-9529
Hawaii Dept. of Agriculture           *       Facsimile: (808) 973-9533
Division of Plant Industry            *       E-mail: [log in to unmask]
1428 South King Street                *
Honolulu, Hawaii 96814                *
U.S.A.                                *
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"...but in the minds of most men, the learned as well as the vulgar, the idea
of the trifling nature of his pursuit is so strongly associated with that of
the diminutive size of its objects, that an _Entomologist_ is synonymous with
every thing futile and childish."--Kirby & Spence (1816)
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