Hi All
 
This may be a tad off topic but I must put the question as it is puzzling me.
 
I am presently reading 'The Hive and the Honey Bee' edited by Dadant & Sons
which gives an interesting history of the honeybee and how it was
transported from various countries in the Old World to the New World mostly
during the last century.
 
It says for example, that the first honeybees were landed in Australia at
Sydney in 1822, and W.C. Cotton took the first consignment from England to
New Zealand in 1842.
 
What I am wondering about is how did the bees survive what was probably 6
weeks at sea.?
 
How did they feed, were they confined to the hives, or did they just move
queens and if so how did they survive.?
 
Thanks for any help.
 
Sincerely
 
Tom Barrett
49 South Park
Foxrock
Dublin 18
Ireland
 
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