Lineage
Our stock is ‘Russian’, descendants of the many lines imported and selected by the USDA’s ARS Genetics and Physiology lab in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Self selected for Winter hardiness by over a century of living in Siberia, this also provided for over a century of exposure to, and selection for, varroa mite tolerance as this territory overlaps with that of the original host (Apis Cerana) and home of Varroa mites.
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U.S. and Russian collaborators in Siberia.