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After a week's stopover in Sydney, the bees arrived in Brisbane. [6] The government of the colony of South Australia passed legislation in 1885 intended to "encourage the culture of Ligurian Bees on Kangaroo Island." [7] Honey from Kangaroo Island is marketed (in 2014) as being from the only pure Ligurian bees in the world.
Kangaroo Island is noted for its honey and its Ligurian honey bees. The island has the world's only pure-bred and disease-free population of this type of bee. The exporting of pure-bred queen bees is a notable industry for the island.
"The oft repeated legend of the birth of the Ligurian bee sanctuary appears on a multitude of web sites dealing with Kangaroo Island's :famous honey bees. The reality is more complex than the simple but incorrect version that twelve Ligurian queen bees were brought to the :island from Italy by August Fiebig in 1881.
Baxter, C (1995), An annotated list of the birds of Kangaroo Island (Rev. ed.), South Australia National Parks and Wildlife Service, Department of Environment and Natural Resources, ISBN 978-0-7308-0677-6
Cape Gantheaume Conservation Park, formerly the Cape Gantheaume National Park, is a protected area in the Australian state of South Australia located on the south coast of Kangaroo Island. Attractions include Murray Lagoon and D'Estrees Bay. It also includes Pelorus Islet located about 7 kilometres (4.3 miles) southeast of Cape Gantheaume. [4]
Alm says the work by the Bee Lab to catalogue Rhode Island’s bees will help support studies years from now. “We want to get a snapshot in time that future scientists can use,” he said.
Thomas White Woodbury (c. 1818–1871) was an English journalist and beekeeper, devoting himself entirely to beekeeping from 1850 onwards after the death of his son. He was responsible for introducing Ligurian or Italian bees to Britain in 1859.
Production is underway on “Kangaroo Island,” the feature film debut from Australian director Tim Piper and screenwriter Sally Gifford. The family relationship drama-comedy centers around a ...