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Apis cerana, the eastern honey bee, Asiatic honey bee or Asian honey bee, is a species of honey bee native to South, Southeast and East Asia. This species is the sister species of Apis koschevnikovi and both are in the same subgenus as the western (European) honey bee, Apis mellifera .
Apis mellifera meda, classified by Skorikov, 1929 (the Median honey bee), more common in Iran and Iraq, but its range extends into south eastern Turkey and northern Syria. [ 1 ] Apis mellifera mellifera , classified by Linnaeus , 1758 (the European dark bee ) originating in central Asia and migrating throughout Europe after the last ice age ...
Honey bees represent only a small fraction of the roughly 20,000 known species of bees. The best-known honey bee is the western honey bee, (Apis mellifera), which was domesticated for honey production and crop pollination. The only other domesticated bee is the eastern honey bee (Apis cerana), which occurs in South, Southeast, and East Asia.
Apis cerana japonica is a subspecies of the eastern honeybee native to Japan. It is commonly known as the Japanese honeybee (Japanese: ニホンミツバチ, Hepburn: Nihon mitsubachi). Analysis of mitochondrial DNA suggests that the ancestors of this subspecies came to Japan from the Korean Peninsula via Tsushima Island.
A honey bee collecting nectar from an apricot flower.. The nectar resource in a given area depends on the kinds of flowering plants present and their blooming periods. Which kinds grow in an area depends on soil texture, soil pH, soil drainage, daily maximum and minimum temperatures, precipitation, extreme minimum winter temperature, and growing degre
According to the brand, the most asked question they get is where they honey buns are. "They came in brown box with yellow lettering. You cooked them in the microwave," says Senior Editor Rebecca ...
Eastern North America (native), Bulgaria, Hungary, Ukraine and Romania (main producers), Canada, China, France, Serbia and Italy Acacia, a light and clear honey made from the blossoms of Robinia pseudoacacia (aka black locust/American acacia) has a mild delicate floral taste and is one of the most popular and sweetest honey varieties. It lasts ...
Eastern honey bee (Apis cerana) including subspecies Chinese (A. c. cerana), Indian (A. c. indica) and Japanese honey bees (A. c. japonica) date uncertain South Asia, Thailand, Japan, China: honey, wax, pollination 6a Hymenoptera: European fallow (Dama dama) and Persian fallow deer (D. mesopotamica) [67] 1000 BCE the Mediterranean Basin, the Levant