Fecha de publicación: 27/12/2006 Fuente: WIPO "apis cerana" The invention relates to a method for breeding a novel bee species by breeding a hybrid of east bees and west bees, comprising introducing a west bee brood comb going to come out cells into a swarm of east bees preparing for laying eggs, to make the number of east worker bees equal to that of west worker bees, and obtaning a mixed swarm; the east queen bee laying eggs on empty combs, moving out the east queen bee to make the swarm without a queen, after the first generation east worker bees have got out cells; putting in a queen cell frame 20-22 hours later, breeding a queen with four-day old east bee grubs of same swarm to get a novel east queen bee; and hybridizing said queen as mother with west male bee as father by artificial insemination or natural copulation to obtain a hybrid thereof. The method breaks the reproductive isolation between two different species, and the hybrid obtained thereby has a remarkble heterosis.