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Peter Borst <[log in to unmask]>
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Informed Discussion of Beekeeping Issues and Bee Biology <[log in to unmask]>
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Wed, 30 Jan 2002 09:00:14 -0500
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At 1/30/02 11:40 AM, Dave wrote:
>How about this for a possible scenario...
>
>If capensis bees (or capensis like bees) existed as natives in US

There is not one shred of evidence that honeybees are native to the US and
a mountain to the contrary. In the Sonoran desert, just south of Arizona,
stingless bees (Melipona) may have been kept for thousands of years.

 From GEARS (Tuscon, AZ) http://gears.tucson.ars.ag.gov/na/bees.html :
>Highly social bees in our region include the introduced honey bee and the
>native large black and yellow bumblebees in the genus Bombus. ... Farther
>south in Sonora, Mexico (e.g. near Alamos) are extremely social bees
>living in colonies with many thousands of individuals. These are nests of
>the so-called "stingless bees", the genera Melipona and Trigona. Within
>Sonoran, indigenous peoples sometimes find these nests within hollow trees
>then transport the hives back to their villages where they tend the
>stingless bees and routinely harvest their honey and beeswax.

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