Carniolan

The museum focuses on the Carniolan bee (prized for its gentleness -- it won't attack humans unless its home is threatened) and local beekeepers who, by the 16th century, had pioneered a form of apiculture in which wooden hives are stacked together in several rows and housed under one roof.

Buzz on Slovenia Honey Jennifer Dorroh 2008

The indigenous Carniolan gray bee thrives amid the diverse vegetation, pristine Alpine environment and forests that cover 60% of the country.

Buzz on Slovenia Honey Jennifer Dorroh 2008

Then, in May, Wally sold me three Italian queens to re-queen some of my cranky Carniolan hives, but I discovered that it was too late in the season; the bee populations had already picked up so that it was impossible to find the queen - even after two passes on each frame in every box by two people.

Archive 2005-09-01 2005

I am sorry to find that you have had, though ever so slight a return of your Carniolan disorder; and I hope your conclusion will prove a true one, and that this will be the last.

Letters to his son on The Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman 2005

Grimm says: "Water, an essential part of the Norse myth, is wanting in the story of the man with the thorn bush, but it reappears in the Carniolan story cited in Bretano's Libussa (p. 421): the man in the moon is called Kotar, he makes her grow by pouring water."

Moon Lore Timothy Harley

He was appointed a life member of the Austrian Reichsrat serving at the same time first as a member of the Carniolan and then of the Styrian diet.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 7: Gregory XII-Infallability 1840-1916 1913

I am sorry to find that you have had, though ever so slight a return of your Carniolan disorder; and I hope your conclusion will prove a true one, and that this will be the last.

Complete Project Gutenberg Earl of Chesterfield Works Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield 1733

I am sorry to find that you have had, though ever so slight a return of your Carniolan disorder; and I hope your conclusion will prove a true one, and that this will be the last.

Letters to His Son on the Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman, 1751 Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield 1733

As for bee varieties, Hughes recommends the Italian or Carniolan for beginners.

The News Tribune Blogs By JILL REITZ 2010

There's also a hive of Carniolan bees, a hardy Central European variety.

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