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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.
Apis mellifera anatoliaca, classified by Maa, 1953 (the Anatolian honey bee) its range is in the central Anatolia in Turkey. [8]Apis mellifera caucasia, classified by Pollmann, 1889 (the Caucasian honey bee) found in the central Caucasus and towards the Turkish Black Sea coast.
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.
However, the name iberica was based on a Caucasian subspecies of honey bees, the epithet referring to the Greco-Roman designation for the Georgian Kingdom established in that region in antiquity. The true A. m. iberica of Skorikov has nothing to do with the western Mediterranean subspecies of bees, and under the rules of nomenclature the name ...
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 ...
At Sevda İyem’s guesthouse in the Macahel Valley betweeen Turkey and Georgia, she serves up freshly prepared cheeses of her own invention, using milk from her own cows.
In 1932 professor E. F. Phillips was invited to the Soviet Union, Republic of Georgia and spent a month visiting various beekeeping and bee research establishments. E. F. Phillips paid special attention to the unique characteristics of the Apis mellifera maucasia (Caucasian honey bee) and its potential in Georgia.
Caucasian honey bee; Apis mellifera cecropia; Apis mellifera cypria; ... Western honey bee This page was last edited on 19 August 2018, at 18:02 (UTC). ...