Syrian bee

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Syrian bee
Apis mellifera syriaca at the Dead Sea

Apis mellifera syriaca at the Dead Sea

Systematics
without rank: Bees (Apiformes)
Family : Apidae
Subfamily : Apinae
Genre : Honey bees ( apis )
Type : Western honey bee ( Apis mellifera )
Subspecies : Syrian bee
Scientific name
Apis mellifera syriaca
Skorikov , 1929

The Syrian bee ( Apis mellifera syriaca Skorikov 1929) is one of the breeds of the Western honey bee . The attribution of the taxon to v.Buttel-Reepen (1906) is not documented.

distribution

The species is certain to be found in the Middle East including Israel . The exact delimitation of the distribution area from other subspecies is still insufficiently known.

The Syrian bee is counted among the bees of the Near East.

Beekeeping in the Middle East

Excavations in Tel Rehov , Israel , found 3,000-year-old beehives that still contained the remains of honey bees, which, according to morphometric measurements, belonged to the subspecies Apis mellifera anatoliaca . This is remarkable because this subspecies is not naturally widespread in this region and, according to all information, was not then. So it must have been introduced here by beekeepers. This is presumably because it was better suited for beekeeping at the time than the local syriaca subspecies . Today, however, the subspecies Apis mellifera syriaca is used by local beekeepers for beekeeping in Syria , southern Iraq and Jordan .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Amihai Mazar, Nava Panitz-Cohen: It is the land of honey: Beekeeping at Tel Rehov , Near Eastern Archeology 70 (4): 202-219.
  2. ↑ Guy Bloch, Tiago M. Francoy, Ido Wachtel, Nava Panitz-Cohen, Stefan Fuchs, Amihai Mazar (2010): Industrial apiculture in the Jordan valley during Biblical times with Anatolian honeybees. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA vol. 107 no. 25: 11240-11244. doi : 10.1073 / pnas.1003265107 (open access)
  3. ↑ The Syrian Bee - Apis mellifera syriaca , accessed on November 26, 2018.

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