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Apis mellifera

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Noun1.Apis melliferaApis 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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Among the novelties of the honeybee, Apis mellifera, are its 170 genes for odor receptors.
Genome buzz: honeybee DNA raises social questions by Milius, S. / Science News
The honeybee, or Apis mellifera (AYE-piss meh-LIFF-er-AH), lives in a colony.
Buzz off by Bryner, Jeanna / Science World
As a child I was picking up a fallen word here and there, and from these spent beautiful bees falling arround me, apis mellifera in the autumns of their days, the words falling on the pews on the floor and on the shoulders of the men and women around me, I built a story about the Mass, about sweet stinging Christ, about the God I heard and smelled, but could never see.
Glory bee by Doyle, Brian / U.S. Catholic
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