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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.
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.
Melittin is the main component (40–60% of the dry weight) and the major pain-producing substance of honeybee (Apis mellifera) venom. Melittin is a basic peptide consisting of 26 amino acids . [ 2 ]
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The species is endemic to the Western Cape region of South Africa on the coastal side of the Cape Fold mountain range. The Cape honey bee is unique among honey bee subspecies because workers can lay diploid , female eggs, by means of thelytoky , [ 1 ] while workers of other subspecies (and, in fact, unmated females of virtually all other ...
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Apis mellifera siciliana is known by the common name of the Sicilian honey bee which is endemic to the island of Sicily, Italy in the Mediterranean sea. It belongs to the A Lineage of honey bees from Africa, with close genetic relations to Apis mellifera sahariensis , Apis mellifera intermissa , and Apis mellifera ruttneri .