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Perhaps it was a bit of training, offering honey if he stopped having symptoms (suppressed equine sneezes in the background) :ROFLMAO:

I've always been sceptical of the honey for hay fever thing. The reason being that hay fever is triggered by airborne pollen, whereas...

I merely said that Modomnoc did not introduce bees to Ireland, but that they predated him by thousands of years. It's impossible to say...

After the last ice age everything had to reintroduce itself or be introduced. So, by your measure, every animal and vegetable is non-native.

Funny you should pick hares. Ireland has Lepidus timidus hibernicus which is a native, in fact our only native lagomorph.

I believe that being around for 1500 years is considered native: Amm have been in Ireland North of 3000.

No I haven't. The locations and scale of the cere perdue finds indicate that there must have been a substantial local supply of beeswax...

Just for those who think that bees arrived in Ireland around 500 AD with Modomnac, plenty of cere perdue artefacts have been found from...