Archive image from page 48 of The illustrated Australasian bee manual. The illustrated Australasian bee manual and complete guide to modern bee culture in the southern hemisphere. With this is incorporated the 'New Zealand bee manual' greatly enlarged, revised and mostly rewritten CUbiodiversity1228471 Year: 1886 ( BEE MANUAL. 29 This variety has held undisputed sway in the north and west of Europe for a couple of thousand years at least, and has been the pioneer in culling the sweets of all the countries of the New World. Wherever Europeans have colonised, there may be found this little inse
Archive image from page 48 of The illustrated Australasian bee manual. The illustrated Australasian bee manual and complete guide to modern bee culture in the southern hemisphere. With this is incorporated the 'New Zealand bee manual' greatly enlarged, revised and mostly rewritten CUbiodiversity1228471 Year: 1886 ( BEE MANUAL. 29 This variety has held undisputed sway in the north and west of Europe for a couple of thousand years at least, and has been the pioneer in culling the sweets of all the countries of the New World. Wherever Europeans have colonised, there may be found this little insect. It is now being rapidly super- seded by the Italian race, but it has still some faithful admirers, and in more than one respect it is admitted by all to hold the advantage over its Italian rival. I shall compare its qualities with those of the Italian further on. However we may admit the superior beauty, as well as the more useful qualities, of the new races, we cannot avoid feeling a sort of regret for the extinction of our old favourites. ITALIAN, OR LIGURIAN BEE. Fig. 2.—ITALIAN aXTEEN. The Italian bee was evidently known to Aristotle and Virgil. The latter writer refers to it in the following lines :— ' These gaily bright their radiant scales unfold, Spangled with equal spots, and dropped with gold ' Although known so well to these ancient writers, very little notice appears to have been taken of this variety till quite modern times, when, in the beginning of the present century, the Marquis de Spinola described it as being distinct from the common bee, and gave it the name of ' Ligurian,' after a pro- vince in JSTorthern Italy, where it was first discovered. This district being very mountainous, and the Alps intervening between it and Northern Europe, it is in a manner isolated, which will no doubt account in some measure for so little
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