As has been pointed out before, the Primorksi bees are not
predominantly Caucasian bees. Furthermore, Caucasian bees are not
Russian bees either -- not if you ask anyone who lives there.

Caucasian Bee
http://www.floretlab.ge/georgianbee.html

> The bee species known in apiculture as the Caucasian Bee is the same as the Georgian Bee and it is unfair that the world knows it as the Caucasian Bee. The fact is that exploration of bee species in Caucasus and their denomination basically took place in times when Georgia was a part of Caucasus under the Russian Empire. This was the reason the species were denominated as Caucasian instead of Georgian Bee.

> In September and October on the black sea coast Bees continue to collect flower nectar and pollen, while in the mountains bee-gardens are already prepared for winter. Abundance of alpine honey-bearing plants with deeply sunk nectaries, a long rainy period in spring and drought in summer, ample precipitation, frequent winds, low temperature at night, wet and long winter the mountainous regions - these are rather variable climatic conditions in which the species of grey mountainous Georgian bees


[The country of Georgia lies between lat 42 and 43; it has a large
body of water to the west; this compares closely with the states of
Oregon, Michigan and NY in the US]

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