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    The Buckfast bee is a breed of honey bee, a cross of many subspecies and their strains, developed by Brother Adam (born Karl Kehrle in 1898 in Germany)...
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    Buckfast Abbey forms part of an active Benedictine monastery at Buckfast, near Buckfastleigh, Devon, England. Buckfast first became home to an abbey in...
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  • Benedictine monastery at Buckfast Buckfast Tonic Wine, a fortified wine Buckfast bee, a bee breed originally developed at Buckfast Abbey, then bred by members...
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    its name to Buckfast Tonic Wine, originally made there, and to the Buckfast bee, a bee breed originally developed at Buckfast Abbey. Buckfast is in the...
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    geographic and climatic environments; in addition, breeds such as the Buckfast bee have been bred. Behavior, colour, and anatomy can be quite different...
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    September 1996, Buckfast, Devonshire, England, UK), known as Brother Adam, was a Benedictine monk, beekeeper, and an authority on bee breeding, developer...
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    introduction of other bee subspecies, considered more suited to modern beekeeping, such as the A. m. carnica or the Buckfast bee, a breed of bee whose ancestry...
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  • Apis mellifera monticola (category Western honey bee breeds)
    the breeder of the Buckfast bee breed, visited Tanzania to collect A. m. monticola bees and incorporated them into his Buckfast breeding programme, in...
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    cubital index: 2.2 to 2.5 Brother Adam, a bee breeder and developer of the Buckfast bee, characterized the Italian bee in his book Breeding the Honeybee: From...
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    worker bees in a honey bee colony disappear, leaving behind a queen, plenty of food, and a few nurse bees to care for the remaining immature bees. While...
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