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of the Honey bee]. Prof. Ruttner, to whom Brother Adam sent specimen bees for biometrics examination, therefore called them Apis mellifera adami.

Brother Adam continued his journey through what used to be Yugoslavia, going first to Montenegro and Bosnia. There he hoped to find a more productive Carnica bee, but he was not entirely successful. In the middle of the Krain region in Slovenia, Brother Adam visited various important breeders of queen bees, whose exports at that time made "Krain-bees" world-famous. In its country of origin, the Carnica bee did not always show the reputed external uniformity on which great emphasis was laid, particularly in Germany.

"That would be a very mistaken road to take. Bees are not kept for their color, but for their productivity."

From Krain, Brother Adam went next to the nearby Kärnten and the Steiermark and subsequently to the Ligurian Alps, where the approach of winter prevented him from completing all the work he had planned.

1954
Yugoslavia and the North half of Turkey
as well as various Aegean Islands

Two shorter trips took Brother Adam to Yugoslavia, where a car breakdown in 1952 had forced him to leave out various areas of Montenegro, and to the North of Turkey.

Asia Minor is home not only to one race of bees, but also various mutations caused by topographical conditions and some transitions. This led to extensive and complicated research projects. Brother Adam therefore contented himself with researching only the North part of Turkey, and planned a further more extensive trip to the South of Asia Minor at a later date.

He also described the breeding of bees as carried out in various Aegean islands, such as Ios, Samos, Ikaria, where in those days traditional bee-keeping methods were still followed. However, he found no bees there which would have been of value for breeding purposes.

1959
The Iberian Peninsula

Brother Adam arrived in the East of Spain in early September, and started his homeward journey two months later on the opposite side of the Pyrenees. In the course of this demanding trip, he covered 10,500 km by car ! From every part of the peninsula, queen bees and specimen bees were collected and these were tested in the Buckfast apiary