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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. European dark bee - Wikipedia

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    The Apis mellifera mellifera (commonly known as the European dark bee) is a subspecies of the western honey bee, evolving in central Asia, with a proposed origin of the Tien Shan Mountains [3] and later migrating into eastern and then northern Europe after the last ice age from 9,000BC onwards.

  4. Honey bee - Wikipedia

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    No crops originating in the New World depend on the western honey bee (Apis mellifera) at all, as the bee is an invasive species brought over with colonists in the last few centuries. [48] Tomatoes, peppers, squash, and all other New World crops evolved with native pollinators such as squash bees, bumble bees, and other native bees.

  5. List of Apis mellifera subspecies - Wikipedia

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    Apis mellifera intermissa, classified by von Buttel-Reepen, 1906 (the Tellian honey bee) found in the north western coast of Africa from Tunisia, along Libya and westerly into Morocco (north of the Atlas Mountains. [1] Apis mellifera jemenitica, classified by Ruttner, 1976 (the Arabian honey bee) found in Somalia, Uganda, Sudan and Yemen. [1]

  6. Carniolan honey bee - Wikipedia

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    Apis mellifera carpatica Barac 1977 The Carniolan honey bee ( Apis mellifera carnica , Pollmann) is a subspecies of the western honey bee . The Carniolan honey bee is native to Slovenia , southern Austria , and parts of Albania , [ 1 ] Croatia , Bosnia and Herzegovina , Montenegro , Serbia , Hungary , Romania , Bulgaria and North-East Italy .

  7. Cape honey bee - Wikipedia

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    The Cape honey bee or Cape bee (Apis mellifera capensis) is a southern South African subspecies of the western honey bee.They play a major role in South African agriculture and the economy of the Western Cape by pollinating crops and producing honey in the Western Cape region of South Africa.

  8. Caucasian honey bee - Wikipedia

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    Apis mellifera caucasica Gorbachev, 1916 Wikispecies has information related to Caucasian honey bee . The Caucasian honey bee ( Apis mellifera caucasia [ 3 ] ) is a subspecies of the western honey bee .

  9. Apis mellifera iberiensis - Wikipedia

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    Thus, the name as employed by Ruttner was an error, leaving Apis mellifera iberiensis as the only valid name for this subspecies of honey bees. Adam collected his observations on a trip he made to Spain and Portugal in 1959. Apis m. iberiensis has the body size of European subspecies with forewings narrower and wider abdomen. It is mostly dark ...