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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 ...
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.
Carniolan honey bee [75] Kranjska čebela, [5] kranjska sivka, [76] kranjica, [77] koroška čebela, karnika, noriška čebela, sivka [78] Apis mellifera carnica: Carniola [79] Around 12 500 beehives, 40 000 purebreed queens and 90 000 bee families in Slovenia [80] Carniolan bee has a status of a subspecies of honey bee. [5] It is also treated ...
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 ...
Buckfast bee; C. Carniolan honey bee; Caucasian honey bee; E. European dark bee; I. Italian bee; M. Maltese honey bee; Cape honey bee; East African lowland honey bee ...
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
Apis mellifera siciliana is known by the common name of the Sicilian honey bee which is endemic to the island of Sicily, Italy in the Mediterranean sea. It belongs to the A Lineage of honey bees from Africa, with close genetic relations to Apis mellifera sahariensis , Apis mellifera intermissa , and Apis mellifera ruttneri .
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