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  2. Western honey bee - Wikipedia

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    The western honey bee or European honey bee (Apis mellifera) is the most common of the 7–12 species of honey bees worldwide. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] The genus name Apis is Latin for 'bee', and mellifera is the Latin for 'honey-bearing' or 'honey-carrying', referring to the species' production of honey.

  3. Melittology - Wikipedia

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    A honeybee drinking water. Melittology (from Greek μέλιττα, melitta, "bee"; and -λογία-logia) is a branch of entomology concerning the scientific study of bees.It can also be called apiology or apicology.

  4. Honey bee - Wikipedia

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    This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 27 December 2024. Colonial flying insect of genus Apis For other uses, see Honey bee (disambiguation). Honey bee Temporal range: Oligocene–Recent PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N Western honey bee on the bars of a horizontal top-bar hive Scientific classification Domain: Eukaryota Kingdom: Animalia ...

  5. Beekeeping - Wikipedia

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    Beekeeping (or apiculture) is the maintenance of bee colonies, commonly in artificial beehives. Honey bees in the genus Apis are the most commonly kept species but other honey producing bees such as Melipona stingless bees are also kept.

  6. Meliponiculture - Wikipedia

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    Meliponary with individual posts in the Pau Brasil village, in the Tupiniquim Indigenous Land, Aracruz, Espírito Santo.. Meliponiculture is the rational farming of stingless bees (SB), or meliponines (Meliponini tribe), which is different from apiculture (the breeding of bees of the Apis mellifera species; western honey bee or European honey bee; Apini tribe). [1]

  7. Category:Apis (genus) - Wikipedia

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    Apis mellifera taurica; Apis mellifera unicolor; N. Apis nearctica; Apis nigrocincta; W. Western honey bee This page was last edited on 19 August 2018, at 18:02 ...

  8. Apis mellifera meda - Wikipedia

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    Apis mellifera meda is known by the common names of the Median honey bee or the Iranian honey bee. Its range covers the non desert areas of most of Iran and Iraq , but also into southeastern Turkey, across northern Syria as far as the coast of the Mediterranean.

  9. Italian bee - Wikipedia

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    Apis mellifera ligustica is the Italian bee or the Italian Honey bee which is a subspecies of the western honey bee (Apis mellifera). Origin