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BEE EXPERT FINDS 800,000 WILD HONEYBEES THRIVING IN ANCIENT ENGLISH FOREST, NOW
NATURALISTS ARE BUZZING WITH HOPE
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Even in a place as populated and developed as southeast England, there are still
ecological surprises waiting for those willing enough to be patient and wander
far enough.
Filipe Salbany
800,000 native honeybees, which some thought to be extinct, were found in an
ancient oak woodland at Blenheim Palace in Oxfordshire, England. Experts said
they could be the last remaining descendants of the British isle’s original
forest honeybee populations.
If true, this would represent one heck of a second chance for the
subspecies—because they are thriving.
The insects were found living in the hollow of some oak trees—typical for this
forest bee species. The hollow was tiny, and quite high in elevation. Curiously,
there had been no record of any bees living in Blenheim before, and immediate
thoughts turned to escaped swarms of domesticated bees from nearby hives.
A bee-keeping veteran with more than 40 years experience, Filipe Salbany, would
end up finding 50 separate colonies of bees in the estate’s forest. The grounds
have had no gardening activity and the property isn’t open to the public, so
this has truly been a ‘rewilding’ area.
He’s convinced they belong to the subspecies that probably should be called ‘Ye
Olde Englishe Bee.’
“A wild bee that has adapted to the environment is called an ecotype, and this
bee could be a very precious ecotype—the first wild bee that is completely
adapted to living in the oak forest,” Salbany told the Guardian.
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Smaller, darker, and furrier than imported European honeybees, the hermit hive
members also displayed a resistance to temperatures as low as 39 °F (4 °C),
about ten degrees lower than what causes normal bees to stop flying. The low
temps also ward off the bee’s nemesis, the Varroa mite.
Blenheim Palace
“They are not from the imported stocks of bees that people bring in. The wings
are smaller and their veins are very distinct,” says Salbany, who has almost
finished his physical examinations. “They have had no treatment for the varroa
mite—yet they’re not dying off.”
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The woods are a paradise of biodiversity, and no managed hives within the 400
acre estate are the main reasons which Salbany is giving for why the bees have
likely remained strong through at least 200 years of history, that figure being
the chronological age of the oldest tree-hollow hive found so far.
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