CATDOLL : CATDOLL:Are the Chinese honey bee and the Northeastern black bee the same insect?

Are the Chinese honey bee and the Northeastern black bee the same insect?

They are not the same species. They belong to the Eastern honey bee and the Western honey bee.

Maybe in time, the Northeastern black bee can be classified as an Oriental honey bee~

In taxonomy, bees are divided into:

1. The subgenus Apis mellifera, including black Apis mellifera and Apis mellifera species.

2. The subgenus of Apis mellifera, including black Apis mellifera and Apis mellifera species.

3. The subgenus of Apis mellifera includes the species of Sabah Apis mellifera, Green Apis mellifera, Sulawesi Apis mellifera and Oriental Apis mellifera.

4. The subgenus Apis mellifera, which includes the species Apis mellifera.

There are six subspecies of honey bees:

1. The nominate subspecies, i.e. the Chinese honey bee. 2. The Aba subspecies. 3. The Himalayan subspecies. 4. The Hainan subspecies. 5. The Indian subspecies. 6. The Japanese subspecies.

There are four famous bee species in Europe, all of which are subspecies of the Western honey bee.

1. European black bee. 2. Italian bee. 3. Carnian bee, also known as Carnian bee. 4. Caucasian bee.

Origin of Northeastern Black Bee:

At the beginning of the 20th century, Russians brought bees from Siberia to the Heilongjiang and Ussuri River basins in my country, where they were raised and formed a local bee species with special morphological indicators and biological characteristics. This species is the descendant of the European black bee with the bloodline of the Karakoram bee.

The Northeastern black bee has the characteristics of strong collecting ability and cold resistance, but its reproductive capacity is low and it cannot maintain a strong colony in summer. Therefore, it is not suitable for purebred breeding, but it is a good breeding material.

Other ingredients:

The ancestors of Northeastern black bees are Western bee species from Tsarist Russia. In early spring of March 1918, Zou Zhaoyun, a beekeeper in Raohe, Heilongjiang, brought back 15 barrels (groups) of Western black bees from Russia east of the Ussuri River on horseback and raised them in Weizigou, Raohe. The bee species introduced by Zou is most likely Caucasian bees (but they are so old that they cannot be traced back to the present). After more than 100 years of natural isolation and dozens of generations of breeding and cultivation, they have become a unique local excellent bee species that can adapt to the environment of Northeast my country and can be compared with the four famous bee species in the world (European black bees, Caucasian bees, Carnian bees and Italian bees). In 1979, it was officially named "Northeastern black bees".

Raohe is located on the Sino-Russian border in the northeast of Heilongjiang Province, my country, in the Wandashan area of ​​the Lesser Khingan Mountains and the middle and lower reaches of the Ussuri River. It covers a total area of ​​6,765 square kilometers and has a total population of 150,000. The area is vast and sparsely populated, with an average of only 22 people per square kilometer. It is located in a remote area, the industry started late, the total volume is small, and there is no heavy pollution, so a large area of ​​virgin forest natural landscape is preserved. The main quality indicators such as surface water and air are all within the national first-level standards: the natural landscape remains intact, the natural vegetation coverage rate is more than 80%, the forest land accounts for 51.82% of the total area, and the grassland and grass slope account for 19.7% of the total area.

There are 1,074 species of wild plants, including more than 400 nectar plants, which provide a large number of high-quality natural resources for bee products. In 1998, Raohe County was approved by the State Environmental Protection Administration as a pilot area for the construction of a national ecological demonstration area. In the 1990s, the "Ussuri River Basin Sustainable Land Use and Layout Plan" jointly formulated by China, the United States and Russia identified Raohe as the best representative of the global biogeographic region, with relatively clean, biodiverse, and representative of the global biogeographic region.

Many experts in my country, including the EU certification expert group, visited Raohe and agreed that the only places in China that have achieved such an ecological environment are Raohe in Northeast China and Xishuangbanna. In order to protect the ecological environment of Raohe, and also to protect the high quality of the Northeast Black Bee, a fine bee species and its products, in 1997, the State Council issued Order (1997) No. 109 to establish the National Northeast Black Bee Nature Reserve in Raohe, Northeast China. To date, this reserve is still the only national nature reserve established in Asia to protect honey bee species.

The geographical origin protection system originated in France and has a history of hundreds of years. The world's first geographical origin protection product is French Cognac wine. In the early 20th century, in order to maintain the unique quality of Cognac wine, increase the economic added value of its products, and restrict counterfeit and inferior products, the French government designated Cognac wines produced in Bordeaux and Burgundy as geographical origin protection products. The geographical origin protection system has played an important role in protecting the intangible assets of the country or region and developing the country or local economy. In recent years, this system has been accepted by more and more countries and regions. In WTO member countries and the European Union, geographical origin protection products are protected and recognized.

PS: The other introductions about the product are too exaggerated.

Maybe in time, the Northeastern black bee can be classified as the Oriental honey bee~, this is impossible. The Northeastern black bee belongs to the Western honey bee, and the Chinese honey bee is the Oriental honey bee. They are two subspecies.

Of course not

What should I do if there are too many black bees among the bees I raise?

Just do the daily management, because it is difficult for us to intervene artificially in the Chinese bees raised in barrels. We can set up a bee collecting platform or place a beehive to prevent the bees from flying away due to natural swarming. If it is a natural alternation of the bee colony, just do the daily management.

Regardless of whether it is a worker bee or a drone, the main food of adult bees is generally honey, so the black bees in the bee colony also eat honey, and their appetite is relatively large, generally three times that of worker bees. Moreover, drone bees do not collect honey and are useless except for mating. When drone bees are not needed for mating in the bee colony, they may even be expelled by worker bees. In actual breeding, if there is no virgin queen in the bee colony who needs to mate, the number of drone bees can be reduced as much as possible. Generally, as long as the queen bee is of high quality and the nest foundation is standardized, a normal queen bee rarely lays drone eggs.

Additional information

First: Under normal circumstances

If the bee colony is normal and black bees suddenly appear, there are generally two situations for this phenomenon. One is that the bee colony is about to undergo natural swarming, and the other is that the bee colony is about to be replaced. The black bees produced here are all drones, and the color of drones is darker than that of worker bees, so they look darker.

Second: The increase of black bees under abnormal circumstances

If the number of black bees in a bee colony increases under abnormal circumstances, then this situation is divided into an increase in drone bees and an increase in worker bee black bees. The drone bees in the bee colony are originally black, but the worker bees will also turn black under abnormal circumstances. Generally, there are worker bee egg laying, honey bee black bee disease, low temperature, aging of worker bees, etc. These situations are likely to lead to an increase in black bees in the bee colony. However, the black bees here are normal except for the blackness of drone bees and the aging of worker bees, while the blackening of worker bees is an abnormal phenomenon.

How many are there? Are they viable? If not, simply crush them to death. Black bees are not good at stinging people.