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Apis mellifera

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Noun1.Apis mellifera - social bee often domesticated for the honey it producesApis mellifera - social bee often domesticated for the honey it produces
honeybee
bee - any of numerous hairy-bodied insects including social and solitary species
Apis, genus Apis - type genus of the Apidae: honeybees
Africanized bee, Africanized honey bee, Apis mellifera adansonii, Apis mellifera scutellata, killer bee - a strain of bees that originated in Brazil in the 1950s as a cross between an aggressive African bee and a honeybee; retains most of the traits of the African bee; now spread as far north as Texas
black bee, German bee - dark-colored ill-tempered honeybee supposedly of German origin
Carniolan bee - greyish highly productive European honeybee that has a quiet disposition
Italian bee - yellowish honeybee resembling the Carniolan bee in its habits
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Even the Apis mellifera honeybee that has pollinated crops and made honey across the Americas for several centuries arrived with European colonists some 400 years ago.
First all-American honeybee by Milius, Susan / Science News
Since the early 20th century, humans have disrupted the natural geographical distribution of western honeybees across the world by breeding and importing two races: the gentle and productive Italian honeybee, Apis mellifera ligustica, also called the yellow bee because of its colour; and, from the Balkans, the Apis mellifera carnica, another prolific honey-maker.
Winged saviour by guardian.co.uk / guardian.co.uk
Willie's brown bees, apis mellifera, which are indigenous to northern Europe, produced record quantities of honey and beeswax last summer and in 2005, and are currently awaiting the arrival of spring.
New website for honey farm by The Journal (Newcastle, England)
 
 
 
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