They are said to go a little in advance of the white man, the heralds of his coming footsteps. Whether as early as 1800 the honey bees had arrived to furnish the Indians with honey is not certain. Timothy Ball wrote in his history of Northwestern Indiana published in 1900 that: We all came here with a full knowledge of what we had to do and expect, and so there was no disappointment.
There was no lack of employment in doors or out - no loneliness - no repining.
Then there is the venison, geese, ducks, grouse, quails, and squirrels, &c., to dress and eat and once in five or six weeks we had "the news" from the post-office. In the first place, there is a dozen "honey-trees" to be cut and taken care of, and as if no fruit or vegetables, the deficiency is to be made up with cranberries. No, I assure you, we were not lonely - never less so than that winter. In a letter dated November 1, 1840, Robinson writes about pioneering near what is now Crown Point in October 1834: The purpose of Robinson's letter was to induce individuals back east to migrate to Northwest Indiana. He would write detailed letters concerning the frontier that he sent to the publisher of the Albany Cultivator at Albany, Albany County, New York. Solon Robinson, a pioneer of Lake County, Indiana, was a prolific writer. Metaphorically, the western honey bee was Porter County's first permanent European settler. In 1776, the insect had made its way to Michigan, and honey bee colonies were firmly established in Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, and Missouri by 1800. By the mid-1650s, honey bees colonies could be found as far north as Connecticut and as far west as Pennsylvania. That homesteaders would soon be arriving when honey bees coloniesĮstablished themselves in their territory. Has been reported that members of some Native American tribes believed Swarming, therefore, naturally expands the range of the honey bee. The remaining worker bees in the hive will produce a new queen and continue on with their production of brood and honey. The hive's queen, along with about sixty percent of the worker bees, will leave the hive as a swarm in order to establish a new colony. Thomas Jefferson once wrote that the Native Americans referred to honey bees as the "white man's flies" since the insects arrived simultaneously with the European settlers.Īfter a honey bee colony firmly establishes itself, the colony may eventually swarm if the hive becomes overpopulated. The western honey bee ( Apies millifera) is an introduced species in North America, thought to have arrived in Virginia from England in 1622. The early pioneers of Porter County were no different than their counterparts across other regions of the country with regard to their great appreciation for the honey bee.
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