Mackay accompanied a hive aboard the City of New York, packaged by Harbison in California. After a week's stopover in Sydney, the bees arrived in Brisbane. Honey from Kangaroo Island is marketed (in 2014) as being from the only pure Ligurian bees in the world. References External links The Ligurian or Italian Alp-Bee The Sydney Morning Herald 30 Oct 1862 Bee Culture The Sydney Morning Herald 14 Aug 1914 bch.umontreal.ca list of organisms with sequenced genome [Retrieved 2011-12-22] Fauna of Italy Western honey bee breeds Subspecies