{"id":7507,"date":"2022-11-07T04:13:09","date_gmt":"2022-11-06T22:43:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=7507"},"modified":"2025-03-28T21:09:21","modified_gmt":"2025-03-28T15:39:21","slug":"indian-black-honeybee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/indian-black-honeybee\/","title":{"rendered":"Indian Black Honeybee"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About Indian Black Honeybee:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>The new species has been named Apis karinjodian and given the common name Indian black honeybee.<\/li>\n<li>It is after a gap of more than 200 years that a new species of honeybee has been spotted in the Western Ghats.<\/li>\n<li>The last honeybee described from India was Apis indica in 1798 by Fabricius. Although Fabricius named the Indian bee Apis indica, it was not considered a valid species till now.<\/li>\n<li>The research team restored the status of Apis indica based on a new measure for species discrimination in honeybees termed \u2018Radio-Medial Index (RMI)\u2019.<\/li>\n<li>While proving the distinct identity of Apis indica, led to the discovery of Apis karinjodian.<\/li>\n<li>Apis karinjodian has evolved from Apis cerana morphotypes that got acclimatised to the hot and humid environment of the Western Ghats.<\/li>\n<li>The distribution of Apis karinjodian ranges from the central Western Ghats and Nilgiris to the southern Western Ghats, covering the States of Goa, Karnataka, Kerala and Tamil Nadu.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Source :\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/epaper.thehindu.com\/Home\/ShareArticle?OrgId=GB5AFUAUN.1&amp;imageview=0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">The Hindu<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The new species has been named Apis karinjodian and given the common name Indian black honeybee.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":7508,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-7507","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7507","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7507"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7507\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7508"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}