[KarlInOhio]

Interestingly, the honey bees themselves are a non-native species in the New World, having been brought over by Europeans.

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

As the Indians called them, “White man’s flies.”

[Buttons12]

Interestingly, the honey bees themselves are a non-native species in the New World

Another interesting factoid, California has over a thousand species of bees, more than any other region. Unfortunately most of them are pretty useless for providing us with honey!