Buckfast Bee
About a century back, a monk from the Buckfast Abbey monastery got curious and decided to experiment with bees. The result of that experimentation was a hybrid form of bees we now know as Buckfast bees, and are a hybrid of many subspecies of bees.
These bees were born out of a need to produce bees that would be resistant to a disease that had been sweeping and destroying bee populations. In order to tackle this problem, the monk drew a table listing bees with required hardy traits and characteristics for his planned breeding program and bred them to eventually produce the Buckfast bee.
