OUR VISION
Whether it's collecting Calluna honey in Sweden or Finland, Rapeseed or Acacia in France, Buckwheat in Germany or Poland, Citrus in Italy, Spain or Greece, or pollinating Blueberries in Canada or the Almond in California, Melita Bees has bee for you.
Honey bees have evolved over hundreds of thousands of years adapting to the different climatic and environmental conditions of the Mediterranean regions (Europe-Middle East-North Africa). the different subspecies (Italian, Carnica, Mellifera, Caucasica, Anatolica, etc.) represent a huge heritage of biodiversity. Over the past 50 years, man has completely changed the ecosystems in which bees have evolved: extensive and intensive agriculture, pesticides, herbicides, urbanization, loss of biodiversity, globalization (exotic pests), have minimized the possibilities for the bees.
The climate, which has remained relatively stable for thousands of years, is rapidly changing: cold springs in the south, seasonal advances in the north, continuous temperature changes, wind, dry periods followed by floods.
A transformation too rapid: natural selection operates over tens of thousands of years, not decades.
The bees alone are not able to adapt to changes of this magnitude in such a short time, but the biodiversity of the different subspecies already adapted to the most extreme conditions (from the oases in the Sahara desert to the sub-arctic regions of northern Europe) come to our aid. For Melita Bees more than the "races" are the genes that each subspecies can provide.
Through crossing and selection we get more mouldable bees, better adaptable to a rapidly changing environment, able to stay healthy during periods of famine and to collect the maximum in those of abundance. In this way fecundity, resistance to diseases, scarce propensity to swarming of the Italian bee (Ligustica) can be combined with the longevity, resistance to bad weather, ardor to collect and store pollen of Buckfast or black bees (Mellifera Mellifera - Siciliana - Ruttneri ), and with the orientation and low propensity to robbing of the Carnica.
Melita Bees collaborates intensively with its customers throughout Europe. Through the exchange and selection of excellent genetic material adapted to the environments of the four major European macro-climatic areas, it has several lines:
Honey bees have evolved over hundreds of thousands of years adapting to the different climatic and environmental conditions of the Mediterranean regions (Europe-Middle East-North Africa). the different subspecies (Italian, Carnica, Mellifera, Caucasica, Anatolica, etc.) represent a huge heritage of biodiversity. Over the past 50 years, man has completely changed the ecosystems in which bees have evolved: extensive and intensive agriculture, pesticides, herbicides, urbanization, loss of biodiversity, globalization (exotic pests), have minimized the possibilities for the bees.
The climate, which has remained relatively stable for thousands of years, is rapidly changing: cold springs in the south, seasonal advances in the north, continuous temperature changes, wind, dry periods followed by floods.
A transformation too rapid: natural selection operates over tens of thousands of years, not decades.
The bees alone are not able to adapt to changes of this magnitude in such a short time, but the biodiversity of the different subspecies already adapted to the most extreme conditions (from the oases in the Sahara desert to the sub-arctic regions of northern Europe) come to our aid. For Melita Bees more than the "races" are the genes that each subspecies can provide.
Through crossing and selection we get more mouldable bees, better adaptable to a rapidly changing environment, able to stay healthy during periods of famine and to collect the maximum in those of abundance. In this way fecundity, resistance to diseases, scarce propensity to swarming of the Italian bee (Ligustica) can be combined with the longevity, resistance to bad weather, ardor to collect and store pollen of Buckfast or black bees (Mellifera Mellifera - Siciliana - Ruttneri ), and with the orientation and low propensity to robbing of the Carnica.
Melita Bees collaborates intensively with its customers throughout Europe. Through the exchange and selection of excellent genetic material adapted to the environments of the four major European macro-climatic areas, it has several lines:
- Boreal: Norway, Sweden, Finland, Baltic Republics, Alps, Canada
- Continental: Continental Europe, northern Italy and Adriatic regions, central-Atlantic United States
- Atlantic: United Kingdom, Northwest France, Netherlands, Western Denmark, South United States
- Mediterranean: Portugal, Spain, Southern France, Tyrrhenian and Southern Italy and island, Croatia, Albania, Greece, Turkey, Syria, Lebanon, Israel, Northern Tunisia-Algeria-Morocco, California, South Africa, South Australia