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 * Adaptation in Honey Bee (Apis mellifera) Colonies Exhibiting Tolerance to Varroa destructor in Ireland was published in 2018, based on observations from seven years previously.


 * Can introgression in M-lineage honey bees be detected by abdominal colour patterns? was published in 2020. The authors misidentified the sub-species in the M Lineage and their analysis of the A. m. mellifera samples stated that colour could be used for colony selection when genetic tools are unavailable. However the results showed that bees from Ireland and Britain could be identified as A. m. melifera as long as they did not have yellow banding into the third tergite, meaning that 40% of the A. m. mellifera contained colour patterns, even though it is commonly referred to as the black bee.


 * Increased levels of introgression evident in Irish honey bees was published in 2024 (completed in early 2023, from samples taken in 2019 and 2020, no explanation was given for why these samples were not included in the 2021 research). The paper asserts that the A. m. mellifera is native to Ireland but does not provide supporting evidence for this, as well as from 2012 to 2021 that the number of imported Queens (assumed to be non-A. m. mellifera) into the Republic of Ireland increased from 102 to 1279. The paper describes Irish beekeepers difficulty in "trying to maintain black bees", even though research from 2020 had shown that black vs. coloured A. m. mellifera had comparable DNA composition.
 * Thirty six "free-living" (feral) colonies were sampled from across Ireland, of which 25% were identified as descending from non-A. m. mellifera queens imported from before 2016, no explanation was given for the greater survival rate of the non-A. m. mellifera descended colonies. All colonies sampled were A. m. mellifera, except for four individual bees which fell 2.5% short of being designated as A. m. mellifera, the authors stated that this indicated A. m. mellifera descended queens had mated with non-A. m. mellifera drones. No explanation was given for why only a single bee was DNA sampled from each hive, while previous DNA samples of honey bee colonies usually contained 30 to 100 bees. In context these four bees represent less than 0.008% of total honey bees sampled in Ireland since 2017.
 * The research was reported in Newspapers (before it's publication) entitled Native black honey bee fading fast amid swarm of foreign imports, NIHBS said "that the research showed how the honey bee population is being devastated", and based on the discovery of these four honey bees concluded that the introgression of A. m. mellifera in Ireland had increased "to over 12pc in a five-year period".

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Terminology

Within the Native (Black) Honey Bee (A. m. mellifera) beekeeping organizations, racial terminology is often used that is exclusive to this groups and not used throughout the wider beekeeping community. Such the use of "race" instead of sub-specie, a term within science that stopped being used in the 1990's, as well as "racial purity" instead of genetic purity, or "foreign", "immigrant", "yellow" all referring to non-A. m. mellifera. Other such racially charged terms also used, include "racial profiling" and "apartheid" viewed as desirable actions.

Can introgression in M-lineage honey bees be detected by abdominal colour patterns? 2020

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of those men who are responsible for its application". He hoped that this could be introduced through voluntary schemes and education about family planning.

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Twinning
Balbriggan is twinned with the following places:
 * 🇺🇸 Belmar, United States
 * 🇩🇪 Sankt Wendel, Germany

Etymology
Its name is derived from the Roman goddess Pomona, the protector of gardens, fruit trees and orchards, associated with the flourishing of the fruit, not its harvesting: With the name Pōmōna from the Latin word pōmus meaning fruit tree or fruit. The region of the Tien Shan Mountain range is near the former Kazakhstan capital, Almaty, previously called Alma-Ata which means the “father of apples”; this area has been described as a "center of diversity" for wild Malus species, Malus sieversii (wild apples), which our apple cultivars are descended from. Apples are Self-incompatible and require insect pollination which is typically provided by honey bees when grown as a commercial crop.

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