This little paragraph from 1823 struck me as particularly relevant to the present situation
Bees were not originally natives of New England. The
first planters never saw any : but the English having introduced
them to Boston, in 1670, they were carried over the Alleghany
mountains by a violent hurricane :--hence their propagation
on the western part of that continent ; where they have
multiplied beyond all power of calculation.
On The Beauties, Harmonies, And Sublimities Of Nature Vol. 2
by Charles Bucke
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