Biology of the Black Bee of Northern Europe
Posted by borderglider on March 9, 2009
Hubert Guerriat is a biologist and beekeeper who lives in South Hainault, Belgium. For thirty years he has been working to conserve and improve the native black bee of Belgium, Apis Mellifera mellifera, and he has an interesting website – mostly in French at http://www.mellifica.be/en/livre/
You can read his article at the link below.
rogermortonphotographer said
This black bee is what I think I am seeing here and mistaking for small wasps. They appear to be feeding off fallen plums which are fermenting. Could this be so?