British Black Honey Bee
Apis mellifera mellifera
Classification
- Class
- Insecta
- Order
- Hymenoptera
- Family
- Apidae
L'abeille noire (Apis mellifera mellifera ou Apis mellifera mellifica) est une sous-espèce de l'abeille domestique européenne (Apis mellifera). Cette abeille est couramment utilisée en apiculture en Europe pour la production de miel. Races Il existe trois races (alias variétés) appartenant toutes à la lignée 'M' d'Apis mellifera, à savoir : mellifera mellifera mellifera (abeille noire) mellifera mellifera lehzeni (abeille des landes) mellifera mellifera nigra (abeille noire), qui ont des sous-variétés locales, comme la « brune de Poméranie », ou la « noire de Scandinavie ».
The Apis mellifera mellifera (commonly known as the European dark bee) is a subspecies of the western honey bee, evolving in central Asia, with a proposed origin of the Tien Shan Mountains and later migrating into eastern and then northern Europe after the last ice age from 9,000BC onwards. Its original range included the southern Urals in Russia and stretched through northern Europe and down to the Pyrenees. They are one of the two members of the 'M' lineage of Apis mellifera, the other being in western China.
La abeja negra europea o abeja negra alemana (Apis mellifera mellifera) es una subespecie de abeja doméstica de pequeño tamaño, de color oscuro. Algunas colonias son tan agresivas que los apicultores consideran difícil trabajar con ellas. Esta característica no es original de la abeja negra europea sino engendrada, porque fueron descritas como abejas de fácil trato, dóciles, aunque menos mansas que Apis mellifera carnica.
Distribution
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