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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. 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 ...

  4. 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.

  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 - Wikipedia

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    A. J. Cook author of The Bee-Keepers' Guide; or Manual of the Apiary, 1876. [47] Dr. C.C. Miller was one of the first entrepreneurs to make a living from apiculture. By 1878, he made beekeeping his sole business activity. His book, Fifty Years Among the Bees, remains a classic and his influence on bee management persists into the 21st century. [48]

  7. 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 ...

  8. List of endangered and threatened animals and plants of Illinois

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    The Illinois List of Endangered and Threatened Species is reviewed about every five years by the Illinois Endangered Species Protection Board (ESPB). [1] To date it has evaluated only plants and animals of the US state of Illinois, not fungi, algae, or other forms of life; species that occur in Illinois which are listed as endangered or threatened by the U.S. federal government under the ...

  9. Category:Western honey bee breeds - Wikipedia

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