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L'ape nera sicula

is not true that all bees are yellow and black. The livery that normally associamo all’ape è in realtà tipica della ape ligustica, l’ape più diffusa in Italia, tanto da essere definita anche ape italiana. Esistono api scure, grigie o anche nerissime, proprio in Italia, simili morfologicamente alle api nere africane (dalle quali differiscono però per la minore aggressività): le quali nel dna hanno un miotipo genetico africano.

L’ape nera sicula (Apis mellifera sicula) ad esempio, scurissima, con la peluria grigia, quasi nera, che ha popolato per millenni la Sicilia, è stata abbandonata negli anni ‘60/70 quando gli apicoltori siciliani sostituirono i bugni di legno di ferula (tronchi quadrati usati come arnie) e iniziarono a importare api dal nord Italia. The bee sicula risk in those years, the total extinction, avoided thanks to the studies and researches of an entomologist Sicilian Genduso Peter, who studied for years after the classification occurred for the first time in 1911, and then he passed this true their passion to a student, Charles Amodeo, still the sole possessor of bees Sicilian grapes. The last of black bees beehives were found in a Sicilian Baglio di Carini where an old farmer beekeepers produced honey still with that old system. The beehives contain several families of bees that Charles Amodeo, after deciding to practice beekeeping professional, kept in isolation on the islands of Vulcano, where Filicudi Alicudi and today produces the only pure honey Sicilian bee. In addition to dark colors, the Apis mellifera sicula differs from ligustica even for the smaller wings. It 's very docile, so no masks are used in the honey extraction operations, it is very productive - even at high temperatures over 40 ° when the bees hang - and stand up well to temperature changes. Very important characteristics for the production areas in the very hot climate. The brood develops early, between December and January, so avoid blocking the winter brood common to other species. The black bee honey sicula also consumes less of the other bees.

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