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Video Clip Andrena marginata. Mounted specimen. Andrena marginata can reach a body length of about 11 mm (0.43 in). The basic body color of these medium-sized mining bees is black or dark brown. In the males the dark color is widespread on the hind body, only the second and third tergites are partially orange colored.
The dwarf honey bee (or red dwarf honey bee), Apis florea, is one of two species of small, wild honey bees of southern and southeastern Asia. It has a much wider distribution than its sister species , Apis andreniformis .
The cosmopolitan bee genus Ceratina, often referred to as small carpenter bees, [1] is the sole lineage of the tribe Ceratinini, and is not closely related to the more familiar carpenter bees. The genus presently contains over 300 species in 23 subgenera. [ 2 ]
Apis mellifera taurica (common name the Crimean honey bee) along the north central shores of the Black Sea, in the Crimea. [2] However in 2011 research from Russia questioned the taxonomic status of A. m. taurica citing mtDNA analysis to the north and west of Crimea, which had shown that those regions did not have distinct subspecies, but that their honey bees were at the most ecotypes of ...
[6] This small bee is becoming a model organism in the scientific research of social evolution. [6] C. calcarata is the first subsocial bee species to have its genome published, allowing researchers to investigate the evolutionary origins of social behaviour. [8]
Apis mellifera simensis is known by the common name of the Ethiopian honey bee, discovered in 2011 through DNA analysis, which directly contradicted previous researchers which had misidentified the honey bees of Ethiopia, attributing them to neighboring subspecies in eastern Africa, in part due to similar Morphometrics.
The larger and darker the bee, the better it does in colder environments. The color of the bee also influences where it tends to forage, either in sunlight or under the forest canopy. Trigona corvina is a midsized, black bee with a passive cooling rate of .32 °C/s. This is important because their foraging and nesting locations are often based ...
Osmia lignaria, commonly known as the orchard mason bee or blue orchard bee, [1] is a megachilid bee that makes nests in natural holes and reeds, creating individual cells for its brood that are separated by mud dividers. Unlike carpenter bees, it cannot drill holes in wood.