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The Carniolan honey bee is a subspecies of the Western honey bee, that has naturalised and adapted to the Kočevje (Gottschee) sub-region of Carniola , the southern part of the Austrian Alps, Dinarides region, southern Pannonian plain and the northern Balkans. These bees are known as Carniolans, or "Carnies" for short, in English.
Apis mellifera carnica, classified by Pollmann, 1879 (common name the Carniolan honey bee after the Carniola region of Slovenia), originating from the Carpathian Plain, it now dominates the central / western Balkans, Austria, Germany and much of western Poland - popular with beekeepers due to its extreme gentleness.
Italian bees that originate from the Ligurian alps in northern Italy are often referred to as the Ligurian bee, which is claimed only survives on Kangaroo Island. [ citation needed ] Italian bees, having been conditioned to the warmer climate of the central Mediterranean , are less able to cope with the "hard" winters and cool, wet springs of ...
Many species of Braulidae are thought to have different host honey bee races. Some of these include B. Kohli and B.pretoriensis which are restricted to Carniolan and middle eastern honey bee races and B.schmitzi with the Italian race [2]. B. coeca is the most widely known Braulidae species, most commonly seen on honey bees around the world.
The western honey bee or European honey bee (Apis mellifera) is the most common of the 7–12 species of honey bees worldwide. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] The genus name Apis is Latin for 'bee', and mellifera is the Latin for 'honey-bearing' or 'honey-carrying', referring to the species' production of honey.
Unlike butterflies, bee flies hold their proboscis straight, and cannot retract it. Many Bombyliidae superficially resemble bees and accordingly the prevalent common name for a member of the family is bee fly. [2] Possibly the resemblance is Batesian mimicry, affording the adults some protection from predators.
Melittology (from Greek μέλιττα, melitta, "bee"; and -λογία-logia) is a branch of entomology concerning the scientific study of bees. It can also be called apiology or apicology. Melittology covers the species found in the clade Anthophila within the superfamily Apoidea, comprising more than 20,000 species, [1] including bumblebees ...
In general, member of Carnoidea are small flies no more than a few millimetres long. [1] [2] [3] Carnoidea is a poorly defined superfamily. In 1989, ten synapomorphies were described for the group, [4] but most of these have later been challenged. As of 2006, the following synapomorphies were described: uppermost fronto-orbital bristle(s) of ...