>I have heard that the USDA Forest Service is looking into the possibility >of controlling honey bees in certain areas of Hawaii Island. The bees are >thought to be a factor in promoting the persistance and spread of the >noxious weed Myrica faya. = >Thomas W. Culliney * Phone: (808) 973-9529 With any luck, Keith Waddington and I will soon be initiating a study of pollination ecology in the Everglades, and it is one of our suspicions that honeybees will prove to be just about the only bee that visits Melaleuca and Schinus, the two worst introduced plants in the area. It also seems likely that those two plants will be Apis' primary food source, so it may be a classic case of exotic species helping one another invade. Anyone have any literature describing other examples of such a "synergistic invasion syndrome"? (That is, where neither exotic would do nearly as well in the absence of the other) Doug Yanega Illinois Natural History Survey, 607 E. Peabody Dr. Champaign, IL 61820 USA phone (217) 244-6817, fax (217) 333-4949 "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method" - Herman Melville, Moby Dick, Chap. 82