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There are few instances of financials losses to beekeepers due to depredations of bee killers such as M. bomboides, but Florida is one of a few states where such losses have been reported as noteworthy. [14] Little Lake City experienced an attack of over hundreds of these insects against bee hives in July 2008. [8]
The Africanized bee, also known as the Africanized honey bee (AHB) and colloquially as the "killer bee", is a hybrid of the western honey bee (Apis mellifera), produced originally by crossbreeding of the East African lowland honey bee (A. m. scutellata) with various European honey bee subspecies such as the Italian honey bee (A. m. ligustica) and the Iberian honey bee (A. m. iberiensis).
Mallophora atra Macquart, 1834 (black bee killer) Mallophora bomboides (Wiedemann, 1821) (Florida bee killer) [1] Mallophora fautrix Osten Sacken, 1887; Mallophora fulviventris Macquart, 1850; Mallophora leschenaulti Macquart, 1838 (belzebul bee-eater) Mallophora orcina (Wiedemann, 1828) (southern bee killer) [1] Mallophora thompsoni Artigas ...
Killer Bee (band), a Swedish-Canadian rock band formed by Anders Rönnblom and Brian Frank Wu-Tang Killa Beez , a collective nickname for affiliates of the Wu-Tang Clan rap group The Killer Bees, an American funk/soul/rock band co-founded by Papa Mali
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 Pre๊ ๊ 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 ...
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.
Replacing hives is expensive for commercial beekeepers like Lake County’s Sweet Bee Co., which has 1,500 colonies. New queen alone costs $30. Florida beekeepers feel the sting from dead bees ...
Euglossa viridissima is a species of green orchid bee from Central America in which the males have two teeth on their mandibles. α The very similar bee that was first observed in Florida in 2003 was found to have three such teeth.