Research Update: Anatolian & Arabian Honey Bees
Published:20 Jul.2020 Source:UF/IFAS
The UF/IFAS Honey Bee Laboratory has collaborated on research that led to two 2020 publications on different honey bee subspecies.
The research team showed that the Anatolian honey bee, Apis mellifera anatoliaca, is closely related to two other honey bee subspecies found in Turkey: A. m. caucasica, the Caucasian honey bee, and A. m. meda, a honey bee found in Iran. The Arabian honey bee was found to be closely related to two different honey bee subspecies, A. m. lamarckii, the Egyptian honey bee, and A. m. syriaca, the Syrian honey bee.