Karl Kehrle
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Karl Kehrle OSB OBE, known as Brother Adam, was a Benedictine monk, beekeeper, and an authority on bee breeding, developer of the Buckfast bee.
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Acarapis woodi
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Acarapis woodi is an internal parasite affecting honey bees. Acarapis woodi mites live and reproduce in the tracheae of the bees. The mites are generally less than 175 micrometres long and can only be
Karl Kehrle
…Germany to Buckfast Abbey, where he joined the order (becoming Brother Adam) and in 1915 started his beekeeping activity. Two years before, a parasite, Acarapis woodi that originated on the Isle of Wight had started to extend over the country, devastating all the native bees, and in 1916 it reached the abbey, killing…
Tracheal mite Acarapis woodi