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Russian bees:
Health of bees
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 All strains of bees are good in their native land. Surrounding climatic conditions determine the bees’ survival skills. Bees adapt not only to the conditions of average latitudes, but even to particular local condition. The variety of climatic conditions determines the variety of bee strains. Bees from different regions have essential differences in their body structure, behavior and life cycles. Even a quick look will can easily show differences in size, color and shape. We can also observe differences in how they build their nests, make and store honey, work inside and outside the hive. Observation and practical work with non-local bees shows that they make less honey and have worse survival skills than local strains. The greater the differences between locations where imported bees lived and where they were moved to, the more difficult it is for them to survive and be productive at the new location. When imported bees breed with local bees; the result are hybrid bees. These new bees have many bad qualities that belong to all cross-bred bees. Apiaries with such bees gradually become less healthy and less productive. Learning from their experience and mistakes, beekeepers will hopefully find that local bees are the best bees. It seems that currently only some beekeepers understand the importance of local bees. Others prefer to work with imported bees and hybrid strains, then become very surprised when their bee colonies make less honey and get more diseases. |
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