Hello, Peter:

While dismissing those who “blame the disappearance of bee populations on 
modern agriculture and especially moving bees on trucks” as “nonsense,” 
Peter opines that “It is a longstanding tradition in this country, as well 
as most others where beekeepers have the resources to migrate.”

Would you care to provide documents (peer-reviewed and printed) on this—-
to wit that the tradition of migratory beekeeping in this country and else 
where has a longer history than stationery beekeeping in human history?

Let's say that Americans brought bees to the new world in 1859, the very 
year when Darwin published his seminal book.  So, let's start from that 
date to establish the benchmark.

Yoon Sik Kim, Ph.D.
 

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