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  2. Buckfast bee - Wikipedia

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    Every crossing with a new type of bee took about 10 years before the desired genes were fixed in the breed. Over 70 years, Brother Adam succeeded in developing a vigorous, healthy and fecund honey bee, which was named the Buckfast bee. The Buckfast bee is popular among beekeepers and is available from bee breeders in Germany, Ireland, the ...

  3. Carniolan honey bee - Wikipedia

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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.

  4. Italian bee - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  5. Glossary of beekeeping - Wikipedia

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    Beekeeping – bees are kept for their products (principally honey), and their utility in pollinating crops; Bees and toxic chemicals; Brood (honey bee) – the egg, larval, and pupal form of the bee and the comb in which they develop; Buckfast bee – a productive breed of bee suitable for damp and cloudy climes

  6. Beekeeping in Ireland - Wikipedia

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    The first beekeeping book in Ireland was written in 1733, Instructions for Managing Bees. It included recommendations for the use of skeps and stipulated the best size to use to encourage at least one swarm per year with two afterswarms. The bees would traditionally have been killed at the end of each season to be able to extract the honey and wax.

  7. Beekeeping in the United States - Wikipedia

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    The first honey bee subspecies imported were likely European dark bees. Later Italian bees, Carniolan honey bees and Caucasian bees were added. Western honey bees were also brought from the Primorsky Krai in Russia by Ukrainian settlers around the 1850s. These Russian honey bees that are similar to the Carniolan bee were imported into the U.S ...

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  9. Category:Western honey bee breeds - Wikipedia

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