BEES

BEES

• Santa Barbara Island: Norman E. Bilderback collected bees on Santa Barbara Island in May 1938 while on a Channel Islands expedition with San Diego Natural History Museum and colleagues Lee Arnold, J. Elton Green and Lewis Walker. They visited Santa Barbara, Santa Cruz, San Miguel, Santa Catalina and San Nicolas islands. Bees obtained by Bilderback on Santa Barbara Island, while on the expedition aboard Novia del Mar, owned by Robert P. Scripps, were described by T. D. A Cockerell. They were the first bees ever collected on Santa Barbara Island.

In the News~

July 26, 1903 [LAT]: “Avalon, July 25. — The campers and inhabitants of The Terrace were treated to a surprise this morning when a big swarm of bees also thought The Terrace a good place to camp and alighted on a tree in their midst, creating some consternation. N. Swenson, proprietor of the place, took in the situation, and placing abox in close proximity to the bees, coaxed them into it, and now has a fine hive of bees.”