Bees of Guam
Author
CockerellL, T. D. A.
University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado
text
1942
1942-06-01
Bernice P. Bishop Museum
Honolulu, Hawaii
Insects of Guam I
188
190
book chapter
5159
10.5281/zenodo.5160372
356a98ac-1526-4045-ae7f-52d08e753dfb
5160372
1.
Apis mellifera
Linnaeus
,
Syst. Nat.
, 10th ed.,
576
,
1758
.
"
A large colony was observed hanging beneath a large branch of a
Pithecolobium
tree
by the roadside
near
Piti
.
It
was at an elevation of
15 to 20 feet
, and continued there for five months after we discovered it. A smaller colony vtas similarly situated higher up in the tree
. Sometimes the bees nest in cliffs of the coral limestone.
"The honeybee, introduced into Guam from the Hawaiian islands in 1907, seems to readily take to open air life there. Little effort is made to produce honey on a commercial scale. Any convenient box is used for a hive. The universal kerosene case is commonly used, sometimes with a side open to the weather."-O. H. Swezey.