Hello Roger & All,
According to the bee lab in the summer of 2002 Ruttner had found a large
percentage of the import primorsky bee to carry genetics of the Sicilian bee
A.m. sicula (Montagano 1911).
Ruttner took a close look at A.m. sicula (Sicilian bee) again in 1988 and
made some interesting observations. One observation he made he had never
seen in any race he had studied!
Ruttners description of the Sicilian queen bee fits the description of most
Primorsky Russian/Russian queens I have had the closest.
Once the trained eye looks at the Primorsky Russian queen and the carniolan
queen the two are easy to tell apart (at least for me).
Are beekeepers on the list which keep or have kept the Sicilian bee ? If so
I would love to hear their observations. Their descriptions of the queen
bee.
Sincerely,
Bob Harrison
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