Honey Bee (Apis mellifera)
A 1999 Cornell University study showed that managed honey bees hired by U.S. growers to pollinate their
crops amounted to just over $14.6 billion worth of food.
Honey Bee
Apis mellifera
Honey Bees are extremely important for farmers and many wild plants. When flying from flower to flower to collect food, they help fertilize the plants. Humans also use some of their products, such as honey and wax.
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Honey bee (Apis mellifera)
Also known as the European Honey Bee or Western Honey Bee ...
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Honey Bees' Diversity Helps Keep Them Cool
Buzzing with activity, a honey bee nest is always busy. And thanks to the promiscuous behavior of the queen, which mates with multiple males, colonies are also genetically diverse.
Honey Bee
There can be few sites more familiar in Spring and Summer in the average garden, park or flower bed than the honey bee going about its daily routine.
Honey bees are actually gentle and won’t bother you if you don’t bother them. Here are some tips to avoid getting stung:
Don’t swat at bees
Wear shoes when walking in a field
Avoid the hive if you see one ...
The honey bee is not threatened in Canada. Large populations can be found across its range.
Animal Diversity Web: Honey Bee
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Africanized Honey Bees (AHB) -- also called Africanized bees or killer bees -- are descendants of southern African bees imported in 1956 by Brazilian scientists attempting to breed a honey bee better adapted to the South American tropics.
Honey bee (Apis mellifera)
The honey bee is probably one of the best-known of all insects in the world; it performs a vital role in the pollination of flowering plants... More 27 Images 8 Videos ...
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Honey bees take nectar from flowers for energy. When bees gather nectar, they pick up pollen on their fuzzy bodies. As bees travel from flower to flower gathering nectar, they leave some pollen behind.
Honey Bees & Africanized Honey Bees - FAQs
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A honey bee queen may lay 2000 eggs per day during spring buildup, but she also must lay 1000 to 1500 eggs per day during the foraging season, mostly to replace daily casualties.
Hummingbird and honey bee to compare the sizes
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Morse, R. 1978. Honey bee pests, predators, and diseases. Ithaca, New York, USA: Cornell University Press.
Percival, M. 1947. Pollen collection by Apis mellifera . New Phytologist, 46/1: 142-173.
Brainy Bees: A honey bee's brain, though only about a cubic millimeter, has the most densely packed gray matter of any animal.
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(Colaptes auratus), pileated woodpeckers (Dryocopus pileatus), tufted titmouse, great crested flycatchers (Myiarchus crinitus), eastern screech-owls (Otus asio), wood ducks (Aix sponsa), fox squirrels (Siurus niger), gray rat snakes, and honey bees.
Unlike honey bees, the stinger of a honey bee doesn't come off when it stings something. They fertilize or pollinate different plants or flowers in their area, helping them produce fruit.
Honey bees produce honey and beeswax which are used by humans. Other, often harmful plant eating insects are parasisized by many species of wasps who lay their eggs on the hosts' body.
eat large numbers of honey bees, creating a management problem for bee-keepers
prey on native fauna
compete for food with vertebrate insectivores such as small skinks
may carry diseases that are can be transmitted to native frogs and fishes.
This is not correct however due to the domestication process having accelerated the pace of evolution (a similar problem affects the attempt to resolve the phylogeny of domestic Western honey bee subspecies).
Unlike the honey bee, which carries any pollen it collects in pouches on its legs, the dune snail bee carries its pollen in a brush of hairs under its abdomen.
Worker honey bees have 5,500 lenses ("ommatidia") in each eye.
Worker honey bees have a ring of iron oxide ("magnetite") in their abdomens that may be used to detect magnetic fields.
Mitchener, Social Behavior of Bees (1974); F. Ruttner, Biogeography and Raxonomy of Honey Bees (1987); M. Winston, The Biology of the Honey Bee (1987); James L. and Carol Gould, The Honey Bee (1988).
Honey Bee ( Apis mellifera )
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1) the impact of pesticide on Honey Bee Queen Production.
2) Continued decline of African Penguins because of poor animal survival of young birds and the resulting low recruitment to the breeding population.
Wasp and hornets build assorted paper nests and honey bees may build honeycombs.
Starlings use coarse grasses and feathers when available, sometimes completely filling the box.
Blind, nearly helpless, hardly larger than honey bees, and embryonic in appearance they crawl unaided into the abdominal pouch of the mother, each attaching itself to a nipple.
The bee is capable of navigating by ultraviolet light, which even penetrates cloud cover. Honey bees (Apis mellifera) also use the sun as a reference point to communicate to other bees the angle of flight to be followed to arrive at newly discovered ...
While they eat any type of flying insect, honey bees predominate in their diet. The birds only catch prey that are on the wing and ignore flying insects once they land.
Several trucks transporting bees have crashed recently. These bees are being used more and more often to pollinate crops that used to be pollinated by local honey bees.
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Mass movements of flamingos may be the result of a communication system like that of the honey bee, with individuals reporting information about conditions at distant points.
A pair of hammerkop may build multiple nests each year on their territory. This is good news for many other animals as Egyptian geese, speckled pigeons, barn owls and honey bees have all been known to use abandoned hammerkop nests.
Maehr and Brady (1984) found that colonial species like honey bees (Apis mellifera), yellow jackets (Vespula spp.), bumble bees (Bombus bimaculatus), and carpenter ants (Campanotus spp.) were among the major species of insects consumed in Florida.
Cowan's Honey Bee (2nd ed., 1904), are invaluable to the naturalist, and contain extensive bibliographies of Apis. D. Sharp's summary in the Cambridge Natural History, vol. vi., should be consulted for further information on bees generally.
 See also: Genet, Dinosaur, Chimpanzee, Chimp, Fitch
  
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