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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 ...
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. Melittology covers the species found in the clade Anthophila within the superfamily Apoidea, comprising more than 20,000 species, [1] including bumblebees ...
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.
A commercial beekeeper at work Western honey bee on a honeycomb. Humans have kept honey bee colonies, commonly in hives, for millennia. [106] Depictions of humans collecting honey from wild bees date to 15,000 years ago; efforts to domesticate them are shown in Egyptian art around 4,500 years ago. [107] Simple hives and smoke were used. [108] [109]
Bees learn and communicate in a variety of ways. Bee learning and communication includes cognitive and sensory processes in all kinds of bees, that is the insects in the seven families making up the clade Anthophila. Some species have been studied more extensively than others, in particular Apis mellifera, or European honey bee.
Apidae is the largest family within the superfamily Apoidea, containing at least 5700 species of bees.The family includes some of the most commonly seen bees, including bumblebees and honey bees, but also includes stingless bees (also used for honey production), carpenter bees, orchid bees, cuckoo bees, and a number of other less widely known groups.
Apis laboriosa or Himalayan giant honey bee, is the world's largest honey bee; single adults can measure up to 3.0 cm (1.2 in) in length. Before 1980, Apis laboriosa was considered to be a subspecies of the widespread Apis dorsata , the giant honey bee, but in 1980 and for almost 20 years thereafter it was elevated to the rank of a separate ...
Apis mellifera simensis is known by the common name of the Ethiopian honey bee, discovered in 2011 through DNA analysis, which directly contradicted previous researchers which had misidentified the honey bees of Ethiopia, attributing them to neighboring subspecies in eastern Africa, in part due to similar Morphometrics. A. m.