Re: NZ flora

Jerry Heverly wrote:
> 
> Odd, sometimes, the serendipity of a group list this.  I had a meeting with
> Dr. Raabe,  the leading Emeritus prof of plant pathology at UC Berkeley
> Friday am.
<big snip>
> So I go home after the meeting and check my email and there is the message
> about NZ flora and fauna that offhandedly mentions, 'we don't have many
> bees here in NZ'.

Jerry,

I make haste to give you an interim reply.......

"Hey, hang on a minute mate!" (To quote our NZ-famous "bush poet".)
THAT'S NOT WHAT MOIRA SAID!!!!!

She will - I am sure - reply more elegantly tomorrow (she's gone to bed
now) - but what she DID say was: "there were not many NATIVE bees in
NZ". European honeybees have been imported (in relatively modern times,
but at least from early this century) and there are many, many honeybees
here now! Honey production is quite big business here!

Sir Edmund Hillary (the guy who was the first to climb Mt Everest, back
in the 30s) was a working bee-keeper back befoer he became much more
famous as a mountain climber!

Tony
-- 
Tony & Moira Ryan <theryans@xtra.co.nz>
Wainuiomata, 
New Zealand (astride the "Ring of Fire" in the SW Pacific).
Other Mailing lists | Author Index | Date Index | Subject Index | Thread Index