In an article headed "The fight to save the native Welsh honeybee," it struck me that there probably isn't a native Welsh bee:
1) 'Wales' is a political construct created by people, not bees
2) Great Britain might have had an identifiable strain of bees, the British Black Bee
3) A rule of thumb is that species within a genus cannot successfully interbreed, but all A mellifera can interbreed successfully
So being a Linnaean curmudgeon, I don't think there is a native Welsh honeybee.
https://nation.cymru/feature/the-fight-to-save-the-native-welsh-honeybee/
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| Photo by Carwyn Graves |
