{"id":213286,"date":"2022-11-07T19:33:25","date_gmt":"2022-11-07T14:03:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=213286"},"modified":"2022-11-07T19:33:25","modified_gmt":"2022-11-07T14:03:25","slug":"apis-karinjodian-new-honeybee-species-endemic-to-western-ghats-found","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/apis-karinjodian-new-honeybee-species-endemic-to-western-ghats-found\/","title":{"rendered":"Apis karinjodian: New honeybee species, endemic to Western Ghats, found"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><b>Source: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The post is based on the article <\/span><b>\u201cNew honeybee species, endemic to Western Ghats, found\u201d <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">published in<\/span><b> The Hindu <\/b>on<b> 7th November 2022.\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n<h5><b>What is the News?<\/b><\/h5>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A new species of endemic Honeybee has been discovered in the Western Ghats. It has been named Apis karinjodian and given the common name Indian Black Honeybee.<\/span><\/p>\n<h5><b>What is Apis karinjodian?<\/b><\/h5>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Apis karinjodian is a species of honeybee that has been spotted from the Western Ghats after a gap of more than 200 years.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The last honeybee described from India was Apis indica in 1798. But it was not considered a <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">valid species till now.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Characteristics:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Apis karinjodian has evolved from Apis cerana morphotypes that got acclimatised to the hot and humid environment of the Western Ghats.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Distribution:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> The distribution of Apis karinjodian ranges from the central Western Ghats and Nilgiris to the southern Western Ghats.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The species has been classified as <\/span><b>Near Threatened(NT) <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">in the State based on the IUCN Red List Categories and Criteria.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Significance:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> The ability of the Indian black Honey Bee to produce higher quantities of honey, which is thicker in consistency, opens up new avenues for increasing honey production.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: The post is based on the article \u201cNew honeybee species, endemic to Western Ghats, found\u201d published in The Hindu on 7th November 2022.\u00a0 What is the News? A new species of endemic Honeybee has been discovered in the Western Ghats. It has been named Apis karinjodian and given the common name Indian Black Honeybee.&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/apis-karinjodian-new-honeybee-species-endemic-to-western-ghats-found\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Apis karinjodian: New honeybee species, endemic to Western Ghats, found<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10317,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,4182,9],"tags":[10498],"class_list":["post-213286","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-environment","category-public","tag-the-hindu","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213286","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10317"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=213286"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213286\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=213286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=213286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=213286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}