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7/20/2014

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Sempervivum flowering, also known as "hens-and-chicks", a succulent native to Europe and Northern Africa, and which our resident European wool carder bees (Anthidium manicatum)jealously guard (makes sense to me). Rusty, of HoneyBee Suite, has an informative post about these immigrants, which were discovered in the U.S. in 1963 and made it to the west coast by 2007.

Of course, the honeybee is also of European origin, as they were brought to the east coast in 1622; it took them another 231 years to reach the west coast, and not by their own volition-honeybees were brought to both California and Oregon
by early settlers.
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Apis Mellifera on borage blossom-like my ancestors, they are immigrants from Europe
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    Tracey Byrne~
    I spent most of the 1980s and 90s in Alaska
    flying airplanes, floating wild rivers, winter camping, raising a wild child, and living off the grid :^)

    With my MAT in Advanced Inquiry for Biological Sciences, I've taught K-12 students from north of the Arctic Circle to the Puget Sound Ecoregion, garnering over thirty years experience as a classroom teacher, learning mentor, and private tutor.

    Here in Seattle, I am an advocate for environmental stewardship, place-based education, and outdoor play. I share my enthusiasm for birds, bugs, and backyards as a writer/photographer for Pacific Horticulture.

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