LIGUSTIC QUEEN BEES: FEATURES

The ligustic Queen Bees are distinguished by specific characteristics such as laboriousness, prolificity and, above all, docility, domesticity and productivity.

For this reason, it is considered the industrial bee par excellence and beekeepers from all over the world appreciate it because of the greater adaptability to different climates, such as temperate and subtropical. Having evolved in the warm Mediterranean climate, the ligustic bees, especially the queens, manage to tolerate the more rigid winters, provided they consume a greater quantity of reserves, and the Moistest Springs. In The autumn season, the consumption of honey increases the tendency to broata. This Bee is not prone to swarning and tends to drift between the hives.

THE CHARACTERISTICS OF THE LIGUSTIC QUEEN BEES

How to distinguish the ligustic queens bees from the remaining? The first ones are yellow-golden or more rarely of copper color; The other worker bees, belonging always to the species "Mellifera ligustica" also known as "Italian Bee" because of its origins in Northern Italy, have yellow hairs and segments of the abdomen pale yellow. The body of the ligustic bees is tapered, the ligula has a length between 6.3 and 6.6 mm, while the cubital index varies from 2 to 2.5 mm. The Regina Ligustica Bee has as its main quality the great capacity of ovodeposition. Several times, there has been talk of risk extinction of the ligustic bees. THE Italian Beekeepers Federation has said that in recent years the Moria is impressive: the number of dead bees has proved superior to those born. The reason for the problem? It Should be sought in the introduction of spurious species and in the use of imidacloprid-based insecticides. Apicoltura Laterza is concerned with the rearing of ligustic queens and bee packs. To learn more, Please email us at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.. Shipments in Italy and all over Europe.