[HaplozygousNut]

I am reading this article about Syrian bees being of the African "A" lineage and not the Middle Eastern "O" lineage, or even being its own new lineage:
https://bmcgenet.biomedcentral.com/track/pdf/10.1186/1471-2156-14-117

 

[HaplozygousNut]

Pictures of bees in northern Aleppo, Syria:
https://english.enabbaladi.net/arch...ekeepers-work-in-northern-aleppo-countryside/

I have a colony here in North Carolina that shows some similarities in looks to the bees in northern Aleppo:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G64aqUd6FMk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pgDB-lLe9HY