ЧЕРНИ ПЧЕЛИ !?

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Първо, в Сръбската Пчеларска Библия (мисля че така се казваше книгата) разделя Карниките на 4 типа:
-Сиви - Словакия, Словения, Сърбия и т.н.
-Черни - Германия, Полша, Австрия...
-Жълти - Банат
-Кафяви - Северна Гърция, Македония и т.н.

Най-стария източник описващ фенотипа на българските пчели, който съм срещал, беше книга написана 40-те години ( или някъде тъкмо след победата на Социализъма) - не й помня името. Та именно в нея се споменаваше, че местните пчели са черни, което на пръв поглед противоречи на нормалната логика, стига в същата книга да не се даваха исторически сведения за съществуването и мащабите на пакетното пчеларство по времето на Османската империя.

Ето пък какво казва брат Адам за някогашната пчела (1954г.), обитавала люлката на пчеларството:

The indigenous honeybee of extreme south-eastern Europe has so far, for some inexplicable reason, never attracted any notice. True, it is not endowed with any of the glamour that would arrest attention — it lacks the bright colour and uniformity of appearance which are often so highly valued. But as a general business bee, it has perhaps no equal. It resembles the Caucasian in many of its characteristics — tendency to propolize, and the construction of brace-comb. Both these defects are less highly developed in the Greek bee, and in some strains they are negligible. Its most outstanding qualities are gentleness, breeding power, and disinclination to swarm. I came across no bad-tempered colonies, except in Crete. The Greek beekeeperhardly ever resorts to a smoker; a small piece of smouldering fungus is usually placed on top of the frames while an examination is in progress. The bees are as good tempered and quiet under manipulation as the average Carniolans. Their breeding power is truly phenomenal: I am inclined to believe that no other race will equal the numerical strength of a Greek colony, or particularly of a Greek queen crossed with an Italian or Carniolan drone. But unlike the Italian or Eastern races, breeding is severely restricted — too much so, to serve our purposes — after mid-July. The brood chamber may well be found chock-a-block with stores at the end of July. The brood is compact and faultless in every respect, and our experience suggests that the Greek bee is less disposed to swarming than any other race or strain we have tested in our apiaries. But it is definitely inclined to propolize and to build brace-comb freely, and the honey cappings are rather watery in appearance. Our preliminary tests and observations indicate that the Greek bee embodies the qualities required for a honey gatherer par excellence.
Aristotle observed that the bees of Greece are not uniform in colour; in his time the bees with yellow markings were considered best. The Greek bees of today are brown, with a yellow segment showing here and there. However west of the Pindus range, from Messolonghi to Janina, they are uniformly black. We were assured at Janina that near Konitsa, on the Albanian frontier, a pure yellow variety could be found, but our search there revealed a mere sprinkling of yellow, which is as commonly seen east of the Pindus range as in the heart of these mountains. In these regions one rarely finds a colony absolutely uniform in colour ; a small and varying proportion of the bees have one or two tawny segments. As would be expected, the queens show a wide range of coloration; drones, on the other hand, show practically none.

http://perso.fundp.ac.be/~jvandyck/h.../2voy/en.shtml
(Коментара за Критските пчели по-нататък не е съвсем точен, тъй като заключенията са били направени върху прекалено ограничено количество събрана информация)

Между другото има много видове Кавказки пчели: от
Черни/сиви Тези пък са на един майкопроизводител в Турция
А така пък изглеждат жълтите кавказки/арменски пчели (A.m. remipes)


Има и чисто черни търтеи на лигустика (като в случая жълтото се явява свръхдоминантно над черното) със дълги рядки власинки на щитчето така че то да изглежда катранено черно. Съжалявам че не си водех снимки за всяко нещо.