BREEDING, GENETICS, STOCK IMPROVEMENT AND MANAGEMENT OF RUSSIAN
HONEY BEES FOR MITE AND SMALL HIVE BEETLE CONTROL AND
POLLINATION Location: Honey Bee Breeding, Genetics, and
Physiology Research Title: Russian Honeybee Breeders Association
Manual Submitted to: Diagnosis of Honey Bee Diseases Publication
Type: Other Publication Acceptance Date: December 11, 2008
Publication Date: December 12, 2008 Citation: Rinderer, T.,
DeGuzman, L., Bourgeois, A., Frake, A., Stelzer, J., Sylvester,
A. 2008. Russian Honeybee Breeders Association Manual. Honey Bee
Breeding, Genetics, and Physiology Research Unit, 55 pages. The
USDA-Agricultural Research Service, Honey Bee Breeding, Genetics
and Physiology Laboratory has produced a stock of bees called
“Russian Honey Bees”. This name recognizes the original source
of the honey bee queens that were used to form the stock. Queen
bees from Russia’s far-east, many of which had some resistance
to varroa mites, were imported into the United States. In the
United States, they were test