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  2. Caucasian honey bee - Wikipedia

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    The Caucasian honey bee was a subspecies that came to have enduring interest to U.S. beekeepers. Frank Benton (1852–1919) visited Georgia in 1905 and supported the import of honeybees to the United States. [8] The Russian revolution and consequent annexation of Georgia by the Red Army in 1921 halted the export of Caucasian honey bees.

  3. List of Apis mellifera subspecies - Wikipedia

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    Apis mellifera caucasia, classified by Pollmann, 1889 (the Caucasian honey bee) found in the central Caucasus and towards the Turkish Black Sea coast. [ 1 ] Apis mellifera cypria , classified by Pollmann, 1879 (the Cyprus honey bee ) endemic to the island of Cyprus .

  4. Characteristics of common wasps and bees - Wikipedia

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    Bees (Family: Apidae) Wasps (Family: Vespidae) Name Western honey bee Bumblebee Paper wasp Yellowjacket Bald-faced hornet European hornet Asian hornet; Image Colors Amber to brown translucent alternating with black stripes. [a] Exact pattern and colouration varies depending on strain/breed.

  5. E. F. Phillips - Wikipedia

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    E. F. Phillips paid special attention to the unique characteristics of the Apis mellifera maucasia (Caucasian honey bee) and its potential in Georgia. Phillips and his wife Mary Geisler Phillips, continued to work at expanding the beekeeping library at Cornell until his death in 1951. [3]

  6. Beekeeping in Mongolia - Wikipedia

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    Beekeeping in Mongolia has a short history, with several species and subspecies of managed honey bees having been introduced in Mongolia since 1959. Introduced and managed species include the European dark bee, the Caucasian honey bee, the Russian Far East bee (Apis mellifera carpatica), and the "Haliun" bee that resulted from crossbreeding three geographically distinct honey bee species.

  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 ...

  8. Buckfast bee - Wikipedia

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    Breeder in 2015. The Buckfast bee is a breed of honey bee, a cross of many subspecies and their strains, developed by Brother Adam (born Karl Kehrle in 1898 in Germany), who was in charge of beekeeping from 1919 at Buckfast Abbey in Devon in the United Kingdom.

  9. Apis mellifera iberiensis - Wikipedia

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    In a comparative study of A. m. iberiensis and five others subspecies of Apis mellifera including A. m. intermissa, A. m. monticola, A. m. scutellata, A. m. adansonii and A. m. capensis, [7] [8] cleavage maps obtained through the use of restriction enzymes [9] showed the Spanish Honey bee contains mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) similar to that in ...