The Buckfast Bee
The Buckfast bee from Brother Adam. The origin of the Buckfast bee is a cross from before 1920 between the dark, leather-brown Ligustica and the former English form of the Mellifera. Brother Adam selected his bee strain for performance, fertility, disease resistance and winter hardiness.
A very important statement by Brother Adam makes the background to his breeding efforts clear:
The word Buckfast is associated with queen bees, among other things. There is a lot of confusion and misinterpretation surrounding this term. The term Buckfast refers to a breeding method or breeding method that Brother Adam at Buckfast Monastery recognized as an excellent method for producing high-quality queens after more than 70 years of breeding work.
Johann van den Bongard
