güéribo - 4-14-2015 at 05:36 PM
Photo of honey collecting in the early 1900s. Honeybees are non-native to the Californias, an introduced species. One biological journal from 1891
states: "The honey bee is slowly traveling southward in Lower California and is now more than halfway down toward Cape San Lucas."
David K - 4-14-2015 at 05:44 PM
"Small cave near Matomi" Oh boy!!
güéribo - 4-14-2015 at 06:08 PM
I thought that'd get a rise out of you, David!
4x4abc - 4-14-2015 at 07:20 PM
honey bees are native to Mexico and Baja California - mainly stingless bees.
http://www.academia.edu/2185544/R._Ayala_T.Griswold_and_S.H....
güéribo - 4-14-2015 at 07:58 PM
Right on. It's the Apis mellifera (Western or European honey bee) I was referring to as non-native, brought to the Americas by Europeans.
