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No, honeybees are not native to California.

Specifically, the insect in question (Apis spp) appears to be an introduced species not only in the Golden State but throughout the entire Americas. Scholars generally identify the honeybee's original homeland as South and Southeast Asia. That honeybees were introduced with the permanent European settlements of the 17th to 19th centuries serves as one reason for the sparsity of edible plants - so many of which depend upon pollinators - native to the United States of America.

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