ELGON bees
ELGON bees
Website for the Elgon bee
My article in
Bee Culture, June 2008
My article in
Bee Culture, June 2008 as PDF.
Varroa attacks!
– update 2010 as PDF.
Back to the future – to common beekeeping (almost)
Marianne and
Sven-Olof Ohlsson, Osterbotten, Finland 2005-2006
Marianne and Sven-Olof
Ohlsson, Munsala,
Österbotten, Finland 2002-2004
Video with Elgon maj 2005.
(click on any picture)
About ELGON-bees
A common color of
the queen is leather brown,
but both lighter and darker colored queens exist.
The color of the worker bees vary too.
Even if the color of the Monticola bee is dark and
some selection is done towards the darker side it
is other traits that are more important to select on.
(click on any picture)
Therefore the color is
not so important and lighter varieties are present too.
Elgon bees are bees that are easy to handle,
collect a good crop of honey and bred for resistance to diseases and parasites.
It is a successful combination between the Buckfast bee, Monticola bees and
Sahariensis bees.
