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This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 11 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 ...
Western honey bee populations face threats to their survival, increasing interests into other pollinator species, like the common eastern bumblebee. [80] North American and European populations were severely depleted by Varroa mite infestations during the early 1990s, and U.S. beekeepers were further affected by colony collapse disorder in 2006 ...
A dead carpenter bee. Pollinator decline is the reduction in abundance of insect and other animal pollinators in many ecosystems worldwide that began being recorded at the end of the 20th century. Multiple lines of evidence exist for the reduction of wild pollinator populations at the regional level, especially within Europe and North America.
In contrast, the bee population worldwide has been increasing steadily since 1975, based on honey production, with China responsible for most of the growth. [14] The period of time with the lowest growth in worldwide honey production was between 1991 and 1999, due to the economic collapse after the dissolution of communism in the former Soviet ...
By raising native plants, they provide food for native bee pollinators like Lasioglossum vierecki [135] and L. leucozonium, [136] leading to less reliance on honey bee populations. Squash bees (Apidae) are important pollinators of squashes and cucumbers .
Although the colony population of most of these bees is much smaller than that of European bees, the productivity per bee can be quite high. Probably the world champions in honey productivity, the manduri ( Melipona marginata ) and the guaraipo ( M. bicolor ), live in swarms of only around 300 individuals, but can still produce up to 5 liters ...
South African non-profit Honeybee Heroes' Adopt-A-Hive initiative is a conservation project for the Cape honey bee. [18] Currently the organisation maintains over 700 honey bee hives dedicated to improving the population numbers of the Cape honey bee in the Western Cape. [19]
A Significant Pure Population of the Dark European Honey Bee (Apis mellifera mellifera) Remains in Ireland: In 2018 genetic analysis was published on 412 bee samples from 81 sites (6% from Northern Ireland), all but the Beara bees were found to contain Mitochondria DNA (inherited through the female Queen line) observable in European A. m ...