Apis mellifera ligustica Spinola, 1806

Zakardjian, Marie, Jourdan, Herve, Cochenille, Thomas, Mahe, Prisca & Geslin, Benoit, 2023, Checklist of the bees (Hymenoptera, Apoidea) of New Caledonia, Biodiversity Data Journal 11, pp. 105291-105291 : 105291

Apis mellifera ligustica Spinola, 1806

Feeds on

A large range of endemic, native and alien plants (including invasive ones).

Native status

Alien

Distribution

Cosmopolitan subspecies. Ubiquitous in New Caleodnia, but absent from Belep islands and Tiga.

Notes

Apis mellifera ligustica was introduced periodically by the end of the 19th and the beginning of 20th centuries on the mainland as mentioned by von Schulthess (1915), but most of colonies were brought from Australia and New Zealand between 1985 and 1988 on the mainland, following American foulbrood outbreaks ( Thevenon et al. 1989, Lamaignere 2001).