Elgon bee
The Elgonbiene is a Buckfast breeding line of the Western honey bee ( Apis mellifera ), named after the Mount Elgon , an extinct volcano on the border between Kenya and Uganda .
History of origin
At the end of the 1980s , some beekeepers exported specimens of the East African mountain bee ( Am monticola ) to Sweden from the border area between Kenya and Uganda . The monticola is a breed of bees with a small distribution area in Central Africa, it only lives in mountain areas above 2000 meters above sea level. In contrast to the East African highland bee ( Am scutella ), which is known for its aggressiveness from the crossings in South America (see Africanized honeybee ), monticola is characterized by gentleness. In Sweden this wild bee was crossed with the Buckfast bee . In the 1990s this cross was stabilized and the breeders named it Elgonbiene. Since 2000, Erik Österlund, one of the original Swedish breeders, has also continued to breed the bees for operation with small brood cells.
The name "Elgonbiene" is a registered trademark of the breeder Erik Österlund.
See also
Individual evidence
- ↑ Elgon - Beekeeping Black. Retrieved on August 5, 2018 (German).
- ↑ Report on beesource.com
- ↑ M. Meixner, F. Ruttner, N. Koeniger, G. Koeniger (1989): The mountain bees of the Kilimanjaro region and their relation to neighboring bee populations. Apidology Volume 20, Number 2: p. 165-174. doi: 10.1051 / apido: 19890207