Word: squamish
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...near Vancouver, Apiarist William Feedham saw a farmer casually kick over a full beehive. To Apiarist Feedham's further astonishment, a group of calves tethered a few feet away paid no attention to the milling swarms of bees. "I realized right away," he says, "that the bees in Squamish Valley were vastly different from any I had ever seen before. Obviously they did not sting...
Last week Mr. Feedham, an official of Canada's Honey Producers Association, announced his find: a honey-producing bee that refuses to sting.* He has already raised five "stingless" queens in his own hives. Besides being rich producers, Squamish bees are prolific, healthy, excellent hive managers. Mr. Feedham was pretty sure that he had something...
...cross between two bee varieties (Carniolan and Italian), the Squamish bees were brought to the Squamish River Valley from Holland 35 years ago by a Belgian immigrant. Now there are some 50 colonies of about 60,000 bees each. To protect the strain, the British Columbia provincial government has barred the importation of other bees into Squamish Valley. Entomologists fear that because the Squamish is a hybrid, its reluctance to sting may not last. But Feedham believes that by long breeding it has now become a distinct new strain. He looks forward hopefully to a honey-producing bee so gentle...