Tonga also had large numbers of trees with many flowers, but it was not a real source - can't ever remember seeing bees on them at all. ------------------------------------- Nick Wallingford Bay of Plenty Polytechnic National Beekeepers Assn of NZ (Tauranga, North Island, New Zealand) Internet [log in to unmask] --------------------------------------- Posted: 13 May 1993 9:25PM NZ time -----------------------------------