The western honey bee or European honey bee (Apis mellifera) is the most common of the 7–12 species of honey bees worldwide. [3] [4] The genus name Apis is Latin for 'bee', and mellifera is the Latin for 'honey-bearing' or 'honey-carrying', referring to the species' production of honey. [5]

An apiary of managed European honey bee, Apis mellifera Linnaeus, colonies in Langstroth hives. Photograph by Mary Kay Weigel, the University of Florida. Honey bee pathogens and pests have been spread around the world with the movement of European honey bees.

The European honeybee is native to Europe and can also be found in Western and Central Asia, the Middle East and much of Southern Africa. As a valuable pollinator and a source of honey they have been introduced to every continent except Antarctica. Habitat. European honeybees require a range of flowering plants to maintain their habitat.

2025年2月6日 · western honeybee, (Apis mellifera), economically important species of honeybee valued for its pollination services and for its production of honey and beeswax. Western honeybees are native to Europe, northern Africa, and the Middle East but are kept and have become naturalized on almost every continent.

2021年6月1日 · Colonists brought honey bees from Europe beginning in the 1620s as a source of wax and sugar. Legend has it they were known as “white man’s flies” because Native Americans often spotted the insects before the human settlers.

2018年1月26日 · The European Honey Bee (Apis mellifera) arrived in the Americas aboard European ships around 1622. In a way this was a homecoming, America had regained her long lost honey bees.

Eu­ro­pean hon­ey­bees pre­fer habi­tats that have an abun­dant sup­ply of suit­able flow­er­ing plants, such as mead­ows, open wooded areas, and gar­dens. They can sur­vive in grass­lands, deserts, and wet­lands if there is suf­fi­cient water, food, and shel­ter.

2021年2月2日 · Honeybees aren't native to the western hemisphere, but their value for producing honey and wax led to their introduction by early European colonists. These were mostly Apis mellifera mellifera, with Apis mellifera iberica introduced by …

Color: Like other bees, European honey bees are known for their yellowish color and characteristic black stripes along their abdomens. Behavior: European honey bees undergo complete metamorphosis with four stages: egg, larvae, pupae and adult.

2023年2月22日 · There are few habitats in northeastern North America where one can escape the reach of the hyper-abundant exotic European honey bee (Apis mellifera). Contrary to popular impression, honey bees are not chubby and black-and-yellow-striped, but rather slender, with golden tones along abdomen.