Kavkazyanka (gray mountain Caucasian bee)
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Kavkazyanka – gray mountain Caucasian breed bees.
Caucasian bee used in breeding and beekeeping technology, because it has a great set of advantages over other, namely:
- Intensive searches for honey in large amounts it collects.
- Quickly looking for an alternative to any honey plant and goes to another.
- No problem is pollen from red clover.
- Able to identify and inventory the amount of nectar, and its availability, and concentration.
Gray mountain Caucasian bees – breed, born in harsh environments, and therefore the best place for it is the life of the Caucasus.
But now displayed as it breeds and species, what, essentially, It can live in most of the regions. This is especially true type mehrelskoyi.
Caucasian bee: specifications
Kavkazyanka – Caucasian bees breed, which primarily have a very long proboscis (close 7,2 – 7,5 mm). 
The weight of the uterus – close 200 mg, yaytseplidnist – 2 000 eggs a day. Gray mountain Caucasian bees are very peaceful and did not attack the hive beekeeper when viewed.
Gray mountain Caucasian bees and especially watching the uterus in terms of the number of eggs per clutch. They are very carefully monitored and brood, so favorable for breeding. Therefore, the spring, and summer is better to put in another cell hives.
They have a very low ability to roylyvosti, that allows you to display even 8 queen. If they began to swarm, enough to cut one of the queen and expand the nest.
Disadvantages breed gray mountain Caucasian bees
Despite the large number of positive characteristics, all gray mountain bees Carpathian breed have some disadvantages.
There are one:
- The gray mountain Caucasian breed bees are not very resistant to cold winter, as derived in the southern regions.
- The insect has no stability to nozematozu, so you need to make regular prophylaxis, and inspect the hive in terms of disease, ensure normal temperature, ventilation and warm winter.
- The gray mountain Caucasian bee does not have the ability to quickly adapt, and therefore need to create a comfortable environment for insects and monitor its life cycle and health.
- Gray mountain Caucasian bees are prone to theft, Beekeeper should therefore make every effort, to prevent this negative process.
Note, all gray mountain Caucasian bees – a series of subspecies, Photos are somehow different.
So, basically all these insects gray corpuscle, but there are species, in which it has a yellowness. It is in any case does not affect the properties of this remarkable species, but simply indicates a profound adaptation of insects in the environment of life.
The gray mountain Caucasian bee – quite brave and excellent choice for those, who wants to have the apiary in the southern regions.
This hard worker will bring a lot of honey and is easy to handle every day. It is peaceful, harmless and stable employee.
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